May 22 (Reuters) - World sports diary from May 22 - June 18. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 CYCLING Giro d'Italia (to 26) TENNIS ATP: Nice Open, France (to 26) World Team Cup, Duesseldorf, Germany (to 26) WTA: Brussels Open, Belgium (to 25) Strasbourg International, France (to 25) - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 23 GOLF European Tour: PGA Championship, Wentworth, England (to 26) PGA Tour: Colonial Invitational, Fort Worth, Texas (to 26) CRICKET Ireland v Pakistan, first ODI, Dublin - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 24 RUGBY Super rugby round 15 (to 25) MOTOR RACING Formula One: Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo (to 26) CRICKET ...
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- Dane Hoyer Larsen elected BWF president
By Angie Teo KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Badminton's world governing body (BWF) will create a separate commission to deal with match-fixing problems, Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen said after being elected president on Saturday. Denmark's 1996 Olympic men's singles gold medallist Hoyer Larsen beat Indonesian Justian Suhandinata to claim the role after an election at the BWF headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. The 47-year-old, the only European to win a badminton gold at the Olympics, will replace South Korea's Kang Young-joong who vacated the post after eight years at the helm. ...
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- Badminton-Line-call review to be tested at …
April 17 (Reuters) - Heated line-call disputes in badminton will soon become a thing of the past after the sport opted to embrace instant review system by trialling the technology at next month's Sudirman Cup in Malaysia. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) Council has voted to okay the technology which would go live at the Indonesian Open in June, the BWF said on its website (www.bwfbadminton.org). "We are obviously still in an experimental phase so we will likely not implement instant-review technology in all tournaments right now," BWF deputy president Paisan Rangsikitpho said. ...
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Badminton Medals
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | China | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | Denmark | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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