hina was more than halfway to an unprecedented sweep of the Olympic badminton titles after winning the women's singles and scandal-tainted doubles Saturday.
The Chinese have swept the last two world championships, including in the same Wembley Arena a year ago, but never the Olympics. They came closest in Beijing when they missed only the men's doubles, which they have never won.
Li Xuerui downed topranked world champion Wang Yihan in the all-Chinese singles final for the second gold, then Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei won the doubles in the absence of disgraced teammates and world champions Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang.
Wang and Yu were one of four women's pairs disqualified for trying to lose their group matches and embarrassing badminton.
ut winning for Wang and u and making China proud gain has become a rallying ry for all of the team.
"It's been the collective effort of all my teammates to put this incident behind us and achieve top results," Wang Yihan said.
"We've done well and need to work harder to achieve five gold medals in the next day."
Zhao Yunlei, who became the first player to win two badminton golds in one Olympics, admitted they wanted to win for Wang and Yu.
"China is a great team. Whether challenged or encouraged, we try to turn it into positive results," said Zhao, who opened China's gold account in the mixed doubles on Friday.
Today, Lin Dan will defend his singles title against Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, then four-time world champions Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng will meet Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen of Denmark in the doubles.
