Halt to Indonesian Tradition

THE badminton court at the Athens Olympic Games has turned into a burial ground for the performance of Indonesian athletes. For the first time ever, this country's doubles teams failed to show at the finals. Three pairs had been sent out, but all of them fell mid-way. The failure worries Christian Hadinata as director of the training center. "We will have to make an assessment when we are back home," he says.

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