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Tokyo Olympics: bronze heartbreak for Hong Kong’s badminton pair of Tang Chun-man and Tse Ying-suet as Japan prevails
- ‘We were not brave enough to go all out,’ says Tse, but pair battled for every point in attempt to win for departing coach Chen Kang
- Japan’s Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino win 2-0 as Hongkongers come up short in quest for city’s first badminton medal
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Jonathan Whitein Tokyo
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This was a reminder of the cruelty of sport. For the winner a bronze medal, for the loser, nothing.
Sadly for Hong Kong’s badminton mixed doubles pair Tang Chun-man and Tse Ying-suet, they were on the losing side against Japan’s Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino.
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It ended 2-0 at the Musashino Forest Sports Park Plaza, in what Tse said is likely her last Olympics appearance, but it was a valiant fight from the Hongkongers against the winners of the All England championships back in March, the fifth-best pairing in the world.
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Tse and Tang should be proud of themselves, just as they are proud of what their fellow Hong Kong athletes had already achieved at these Games.
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