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China wins bronze medal in badminton
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Aug 15, 2008,
8:49 AM ET
BEIJING (AP) China's Wei Yili and Zhang Yawen won the bronze medal in women's doubles in the Olympic badminton tournament on Friday, defeating Japan's Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsuna.
After a closely contested first game, the third-seeded Zhang and Wei raced out to a 7-0 lead in the second game and never looked back on their way to a 21-17, 21-10 win over the unseeded Japanese.
Suetsuna and Maeda beat defending Olympic champions and top-seeded Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen of China in the quarterfinals but committed a series of unforced errors to start the second game and couldn't recover.
Japan has never won a medal in Olympic badminton.