Defending Olympic champion Lin Dan dropped a game to Japanese shuttler Sasaki Sho before winning the hard battle Thursday evening, so as to advance into the semifinal of men's singles.
Three Chinese shuttlers, Wang Yihan, Wang Xin and Li Xuerui, defeated their rivals to advance into the semifinals of women's singles at the Wembley Arena Thursday.
China's hopes of reaching the Olympic men's basketball playoffs took a double blow yesterday with NBA star Yi Jianlian suffering a knee injury in winless China's 61-81 loss to Australia.
The IOC is urging the Chinese, South Korean and Indonesian national Olympic committees to investigate the coaches of the badminton players who were disqualified for trying to lose matches.
China locked in another table tennis gold when world number one Zhang Jike and teammate Wang Hao both reached the men's singles final of the London Olympic Games on Thursday.