A non-asian player winning the gold in badminton! Olé!

Aug 19, 2016 3:47 PM

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Next stop: Ping Pong

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Surprised, considering Red was on her back foot most of that match.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is it racist that when I read "Asian" India totally didn't come to mind at first?

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

ESPAÑA!!!

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Olé!

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My dad said I could marry someone if that guy beat him at ping pong. My husband is the only one that ever beat him.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I totally forgot I'm on my husband's account. Oops.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yess!! Esa Carolina

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

She is phenomenal. But, she does scare me with all that crazy shouting

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My dog Minton ate a shuttlecock. Badminton

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

India has only 1 silver and 1 bronze in all badminton events in the Olympics tho. Take it from china, not india!

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Gold is gold. If they can won it from a bull than a mountain, that's fine.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

not goodminton then?

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

You playing badminton, I'm playing goodminton. You just bowled a turkey? Well I just bowled a dove.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Being an Indian I supported PV Sindhu, but Marin seriously is a better and stronger player. Hats off to both of them.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

DISHONOR ON YOUR WHOLE FAMILY. dishonor on you! dishonor on your cow!

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Vamos!!!

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Those spain fans look exactly like one would expect spain fans to look.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

She was ranked #1 in the world and was first seed playing against the 10th seed...

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Why are you defining them by their race? Why not just say "X won badminton" or something? At least use her name.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This sport seems brutal

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's very fast paced. Also unlike tennis, They have to reach winning points 1 point at a time. Imagine tennis as elegant ballet while badmin

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ton is like Chinese sword dance.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You think you can take ping pong? Get your ass out of my dojo.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought it was going to be another well looped gif

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Have you ever heard about JO Waldner? Ping pong is done.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She is also the world champion

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She's No. 1 ranked and done more for Spain than Rafael Nadal. FYI

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OléOléOléOlé Olé Oolé

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Spain is part of Africa.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm spanish and it took me a moment to remember Ceuta y Melilla

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

well I'm also referring back when France considered over their southern mountains africa. B/c of Granada and friends.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

An Asian country hasn't lost ping pong since Forrest Gump, it's about time we take that!

10 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

J-O Waldner would like to have a word with you

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Are they wearing matching shoes?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Keep forgetting that Indians are asians

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nothing that I excelled at in middle school should be an Olympic sport. What next, Olympic bowling!?

10 years ago | Likes 151 Dislikes 19

Olympic Random Boners

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Olympic masterbation?

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Olympic heads-up-7-up

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

this shit right here

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Olympic arson?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Olympic Sock-Filling?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Olympic dodgeball

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Olympic cutting

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Synchronized Masturbation.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Better than equestrian.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hey hey. As a pro am bowler in my past. I would totally like that

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Excelled". Right.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Olympic Premature Ejaculation?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Olympic esports

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Olympic Procrastination?

10 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 1

Let me start trainning .... Mmm maybe tomorrow

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We'll get to that one in 2020....

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

"The US School Shooting Team is up next, let's see if the newly enacted extended magazine rule hurts their hopes for a gold..."

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

"Clearly adapted, they've just learned how to reload faster. Good job team. Reducing the capacity from 15 to 10 hasn't slowed them down."

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Olympic suicide?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Obviously you failed at that. Also, if you didn't fail, I'll throw Olympic Necromancy up there.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

As an Indian, this match was so fucking difficult to watch. The Spanish player kicked ass tho.

10 years ago | Likes 135 Dislikes 6

We wait for Tokyo now fellow Indian! We might get our vengeance there.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

If Nehwal is fit too, these two can be quite a challenge.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Congratulations on your first silver though!

10 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

She's 21 man! 21! Fuck. My cousin is a nationally ranked junior and is in Gopi's academy. Says she's amazing on and off the court.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a spaniard, hat's off to Sindhu, amazing skills and great sportsmanship. And she's only 21!

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

eyyy donde en españa?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Castellón

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're from India? May I ask some questions?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Go ahead

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What's the average wage there? Is scamming a huge issue? What's the rules on LGBT (or social norms)

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

1. Average wage is about 200$ per month (apparently). I honestly didnt know and that figure is from a google search

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2. Recently a whole bunch of scams have come up, so it makes it look like a big deal, but honestly it isn't as big as media says it is.(1/2)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wasnt aware badminton was a sterotypically asian sport. Then again ive never paid any attention to badminton.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Well, that was your first mistake.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

wasn't it invented in india..?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Badminton is pretty much played all over Asia. Maybe the small stature helped with speed and agility needed in badminton. I dunno.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Or being able to be indoors, away from the heat/bugs/typhoons.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Actually most of them in open areas. Its field is small enough for densely populated. This is why Futsal also became popular because it -

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

- doesn't take too much space like soccer field does.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0