Shuttlers in with chance to end wait
Hopes high for Thais’ 1st badminton medal
Thai shuttlers have competed in every Olympics since badminton officially debuted at the 1992 Barcelona Games but have yet to win a medal in the sport.
There are high hopes that the Thais can finally end the country’s long wait for that breakthrough at the eighth staging of the sport as a medal event at Tokyo 2020 which begins Friday.
The badminton competition starts on July 24, a day after the opening ceremony at the newly-constructed Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, and Thailand have seven representatives in Tokyo — the same number of athletes they had…
