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  • The men's doubles final in Badminton featuring the number one seeds, Lang Wei-Kun and Wang Chang from the People's Republic of China, playing Li Yang and Wang Qilin of Chinese Taipei, who were the gold medal winners from the last Olympics.

  • And they made the early positive moves, at one stage three points up.

  • But these teams displayed some remarkable skills and on this point the Chinese pair came back to 7-9.

  • A touch of good fortune for Chinese Taipei as they made the most of this net court and soon after wrapped up game one, 21-17.

  • Game two was as tight as you'd expect and could have gone either way, end-to-end action that entertained the fans.

  • But China grabbed this vital score when their opponents went long to go two points ahead and leveled the match soon after, 21-18.

  • So, all square and into game three, more sparkling play from two teams at the very top of their game.

  • China coming back to one point behind with this score.

  • And it came down to this, Chinese Taipei had two gold medal chances.

  • They failed with the first, but not with this one.

  • Li Yang and Wang Qilin of Chinese Taipei retaining their gold medal winning in three games.

  • Bronze to Malaysia.

  • The silver medal going to China.

  • And gold for the second time running to Li Yang and Wang Qilin of Chinese Taipei.

The men's doubles final in Badminton featuring the number one seeds, Lang Wei-Kun and Wang Chang from the People's Republic of China, playing Li Yang and Wang Qilin of Chinese Taipei, who were the gold medal winners from the last Olympics.

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