Chinese Olympic badminton champion Lin Dan retires at 36


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China's two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan, aged 36, arguably the greatest badminton player of all time, announced his retirement on Saturday. It means that Lin, who won gold at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Games, will not compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which were pushed back to next summer because of the novel coronavirus. The end of Lin's glorious career comes just over a year after the retirement of his great rival and friend, the Malaysian star Lee Chong Wei. The duo reigned over the sport for more than a decade and have only relinquished that hold in...