Hello and welcome back to Badminton Insight now as you can tell this isn't the hall and this
isn't our footwork video! Unfortunately we've been contacted by UK track and trace as we had a close
contact with the positive case so we've decided to do a video where we predict the winners of the
olympics as we're only three weeks away and our predictions are very different! Yeah they are! Now
before we get started we're actually running an Olympic prediction tournament over on our Patreon
on our exclusive discord channel where you can win certain prizes such as our current rackets
so as well as entering this tournament you'll also be helping to support our channel
and we'll include a link in the description below if you're interested in that
or you can just search Badminton Insight on Patreon, now let's get to our predictions!
So we're going to start with our prediction for the men's singles winner now do you want
to go first? Ladies first? Yeah why not okay so my prediction for the men's singles is Viktor Axelsen
and should I go through why I think why? Yeah yeah So I think at the start of the year he was in
unbelievable form I think if he can continue that form into Tokyo he'll be very very dangerous and
I think he's also now got that experience at the major events, his olympic bronze, he won the world
championships so I think he can really use that to progress! Okay okay yeah it's different to mine
I would love to see you know Viktor and Anders and the other European's do well but I'm gonna have
to go for Kento Momota! I think home advantage, home favourite, home advantage they might set up the
hall to suit him you'd imagine but also I think he's got that record against Viktor,
a very you know impressive head-to-head record against him and he's one of the
only people that Viktor really struggles against so yeah I'm gonna go I'm gonna go Kento
I think we could debate that for a very long time but let's move on to the women's singles
who are you thinking? Me now this is a really difficult one I think I'm going to go Chen Yufei
Yeah I think historically China have prepared really well for the olympics and dominated at the
Games and I think she would have really benefited from a good long training block so yeah that's
mine it's a really tough one but that's that's mine, who you going for? I've got to go Tai Tzu Ying
I think women's singles is a very very competitive event! The reason I chose her is just
I love watching her play she's so skilful and I think you guys can probably tell that we both
like watching her play we've used her in lots of our videos before a she's my vote! Yeah I think we
probably both would have gone for Carolina Marin before her injury - obviously she's torn
her acl so that's very important to note and I think we would also like to see Sindhu
do really well! Yeah! So moving on to the men's doubles, who you going for? For me it has to be
Ahsan and Setiawan, again another highly highly competitive event I think their experience at
those top events just kind of shines through and I think they'll be a very hard pair to beat as long
as their injuries and fitness is fine throughout the whole tournament yeah they've certainly got
the experience and they're honestly the best in that pressure environment they're just so calm
and they've proven that by their results over the years! However, no no no no no however
I am going to go for Yuta Watanabe and Endo for two reasons, their defence at the All England and
how solid they were, not making any mistakes was just unbelievable and I think you know
it's shown by them beating you know the top pairs like Kevin and Marcus in previous years
I think they were so solid and also I think Endo's got a bit of revenge hasn't he to seek after
five years ago where he lost in the quarter finals, his partner Hayakawa at the time
was injured but it's so difficult you know you don't know how the Indonesians are gonna
come out so that is going to be a really exciting one to see, honestly I can't wait! We're
going to be watching absolutely every game on that one so yeah women's doubles, me to go first
Now this is a difficult one again Japan home home country have got a lot of good pairs in there yeah
and historically over the last few years they've dominated the women's doubles event
however i'm going to go China for kind of the same reasons as before they
usually prepare well for this and Chen Qingchen who I absolutely love, her and Jia Yu Fan are
I think my favourites to take it! What about you? For me I've got to go Japanese, I think they are just
head and shoulders as a nation at the moment above any other in women's doubles.
Which Japanese though? I'm gonna go for Matsumoto and Nagahara yeah I think they were very impressive at
the All England and I think yeah just their like resilience in the game
I just really enjoy watching them! They're pretty lethal in attack as well! They are, so that's my bet!
Okay and the final event of mixed doubles we've not actually had one the same yet but I think
this will be our one prediction that we have the same. Yeah we've discussed this before! Yeah
And for me it has to be the Chinese, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, hopefully I pronounced that right!
Gotta have at least one Chinese pair in my predictions and yeah are you the same? Do you
agree? Yeah same Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, I think they were so consistent before Covid you know
consistently winning you know the amount of world ranking points they had was crazy, winning the big
events and I think for me again they'll have been training hard I can't see anyone beating
them! Agreed, It'll be a difficult one! But again lots of people that on their day can upset the odds
you've got Praveen jordan an Octavianti you've got Yita and Higashino if he can really cope with
two events and also Marcus and Lauren yeah and also Marcus and Lauren from GB so
we'll see we'll see but it's gonna be it's gonna be so exciting in it but yeah once again join
that discord server and um no we have a natural outro! Yeah I know, okay! So yeah it's gonna be a very
very exciting few weeks we both absolutely love the Olympics, the last two that we spent together
we've watched almost every event every sport it's such a great occasion to learn about new sports
so we hope a lot of people will watch and learn about badminton and get involved! So they were our
predictions for the Olympics remember if you want to join our prediction tournament as well as next
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