What’s better than winning an Olympic gold medal? How about winning a gold medal and almost immediately getting a marriage proposal? That’s exactly what happened Friday to Huang Yaqiong, a women’s ...
China’s Huang Ya Qiong walked into Porte de La Chapelle Arena in Paris on Tuesday with her badminton mixed doubles partner Zheng Si Wei hoping for a gold medal. She left with the medal and a diamond ...
Huang Ya Qiong of Team People’s Republic of China celebrates after winning a Mixed Doubles Semifinal (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) Congratulations to Huang Yaqiong for winning it all — an ...
PARIS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Chinese mixed doubles gold medallist Huang Yaqiong had just stepped off the podium when her teammate, men's doubles Tokyo silver medallist Liu Yuchen, got down on one knee and ...
China’s Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong demolished South Korea’s Kim Won-ho and Jeong Na-eun 21-8, 21-11 in mixed doubles to win the first medal of the badminton tournament at the Porte de La Chapelle ...
PARIS, July 29 (Reuters) - China suffered their first badminton defeats of the Paris Olympics on Monday when mixed doubles favourites Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping were upset by a Malaysian pair and ...
In a politically charged contest, Taiwan rejoiced over its men’s doubles badminton gold medal triumph against China at the Paris Olympics. What Happened: Taiwan’s reigning champions from the 2021 ...
PARIS − Badminton is a hugely popular sport in both Taiwan and China. At the Paris Olympics, two incidents in as many days involving the sport's spectators reflects those place's uneasy rivalry on the ...