Indian star eyes London gold
By Tang Yue | China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-30 07:54
Players from the China national badminton team hold up their head coach Li Yongbo after winning the finals of the 2011 Sudirman Cup world mixed team badminton championships in Qingdao, the coastal city in Shandong province, on Sunday. China defeated Denmark 3-0. Cui Meng / China Daily |
Qingdao, Shandong - India has the second largest population in the world but no female athlete from that country has ever won an Olympic gold medal. A year out from the London Games, Saina Nehwal, the world No 4 women's shuttler and the top-ranked non-Chinese, has the best chance of achieving that breakthrough.
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