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Badminton powerhouse China has long dominated the sport cheap nike air max 270 , but its poor return of just two gold medals at the Rio Olympic Games marks a sea change as its stranglehold loosens.
China collected a clean sweep of five gold medals at London 2012, however it was a different story in Brazil as its women shuttlers and superstar Lin Dan left empty-handed.
That poor return played a major role in China slipping behind Great Britain to finish third in the medals table - the first time they have finished outside the top two since the Sydney Games in 2000.
The women's singles had its first non-Chinese winner since the Atlanta Games 20 years ago after Li Xuerui failed to defend her title won in London, losing in the semifinal.
After falling to Spanish gold medalist Carolina Marin, the 25-year-old Li said it was becoming harder for China to -continue its dominance of the sport, which has been an Olympic event since Barcelona 1992.
Marin later hailed her gold medal as one "that broke the Asian world" and with the Spaniard only 23 years old it could be a European country that commands future women's singles titles.
The Asian giant also missed out on Olympic women's doubles badminton gold for the first time since the Barcelona Games when Tang Yuanting and Yu Yang lost in the semifinals.
Japanese duo Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi beat Denmark in the final for gold with the former declaring it had been their goal to "break China's dominance."
Earlier last week both of China's pairs nike air max 270 uk , including double London gold medallist Zhao Yunlei, lost in the last four of the mixed doubles, which was eventually won by Indonesia.
With three gold medals down China were still looking for their first podium-topping finish, which eventually came thanks to the men's doubles pairing of Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan.
Chen Long beat Malaysian Lee Chong Wei in the men's singles final to grab China's second gold but the departure of Lin is perhaps the biggest threat to Chinese dominance.
The double Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champion, nicknamed "Super Dan nike air max 270 womens ," was beaten by Lee in the last four before losing his bronze medal match to Denmark's Viktor Axelsen.
Lin towered over the sport for at least a decade but at 32, Rio was all but -certainly his last Games and it was not the end to a glorious career that he would have wanted.
Chen is only 27 but was taken to three games by future star Axelsen, who at 22 could be favorite for a gold medal at Tokyo in four years' time.
With Zhao, who turns 30 shortly, also expected to announce her retirement soon nike air max 98 uk , and Fu aged 32, China needs a new generation of younger players if it's to keep its grip tightly on Olympic gold medals.
Chinese people spent more at the movies during the eight-day national holiday this year than ever before, with box offices reaping 70 percent more in income compared to the same period last year, possibly a sign that the nation's film market is gradually recovering from a lack-luster 2016.
Moviegoers spent 2.6 billion yuan (390 million U.S. dollars) during the "golden week," soaring above the 1.6 billion yuan earned during the holiday in 2016 nike air max 360 uk , according to box office tracker Maoyan. It broke the record for earnings during the week-long span, which was 1.85 billion in 2015.
Local comedies this year have been pulling the bulk of the weight, with Never Say Die, a boxing-themed body swap flick, contributing nearly 1.4 billion to the total. Tickets to action films Chasing the Dragon and The Foreigner made up most of the remainder 1.2 billion in earnings.
This summer's blockbuster action film Wolf Warrior 2 broke all-time records off white air max 97 uk , bringing in around 5.7 billion yuan – a figure almost double the revenues of the previous box office champion held by fantasy film The Mermaid in 2016.
A stronger performance during "golden week"– the second-highest grossing week after the week-long Chinese Lunar New Year – coupled with overperforming titles, could help this year's box office rebound, ending an insipid mood in the market which prevailed last year.
A decade-long streak of double-digit film industry growth ground to a stand-still last year at 45.5 billion yuan, with a mere 3 percent increase in the size of box office income.
Ticketing receipts totaled 27.2 billion for the first six months of 2017, a figure that did not include Wolf Warrior's 5.7 billion earnings as well as other decently performing films during the summer season nike air max 97 silver mens , such as the fifth film the Transformers franchise. The total box office as of the end of the national holiday on Sunday nears 45 billion yuan, according to estimates by CGTN.
Three months remain to see just how much better China's film market can do compared to the previous year, with few anticipated titles set for release later this year: The sequel to Kingsman, a film widely enjoyed by audiences in 2015; Marvel's superhero film Thor: Ragnarox; and Upon Fallen Wings, a homegrown crime movie based on novel with a huge domestic following.
Despite the assurance that the film market will pick up this year nike air max 97 womens uk , the nation may still be years away from overtaking the U.S. as the nation with the largest box office, at 11.4 billion dollars last year.
Though expansion is guaranteed, the pace of its rise will be heavily damped as picker and audiences discriminate against slap-dash productions and head to cinemas only for films they deem deserving of their time and money.
An annual growth rate of 30-40 percent as seen in earlier years will also become a thing of the past, as film distribution companies become more fastidious in striking "minimal distribution" agreements with theaters. This refers to a previously common practice of buying tickets in bulk to boost word of mouth and allowing parties to wager on revenues, which led to fake screenings and inflated figures.
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