Yulianti’s medal is like gold for us

MARIA Kristin Yulianti beat China’s Lu Lan 11-21, 21-13 and 21-15 to clinch third place in the Badminton Women's Singles event on Saturday, August 16, in Beijing Olympic. She got bronze medal. Lu led throughout the first game, winning 21-11 with ease. The second game, however, saw the two shuttlers keep close scores until Yulianti led 7-6. She grabbed the next seven points to lead 14-6 and held this advantage to the end of the game, winning 21-13. Yulianti played in better form than her rival in the tie-breaker, she is very heroic player, reaching 18-8 after a tough contest. Although Lu revived a bit and got the next four points to narrow the gap to six points, and further cut it to four points later, Yulianti managed to reach 21 points first and grabbed this game 21-15. After Mia Audina (silver medal in Atlanta 96) and Susy Susanty got the gold in 92 (in Barcelona) and bronze in Atlanta 96, the Indonesian women single is nothing in olympic. But here she come: Maria Kristin Yulianti. It is the right moment on country’s anniversary August 17th. She made the China’s audience cry. On the other match, The flag red and white with the song "Indonesia Raya” is sung up in Beijing Olympic. The 23 years old, both, Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan have won the gold medal in men’s doubles badminton beating Chinese pair Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng 2-1 in three sets, 12-21, 21-5, 21-17. Our pairs en route to the top of the podium. "I cannot emphasize enough how important this Gold medal is to me and to my country, which is celebrating its National Day at the end of the month (17th August)," said a joyful Kido. "I feel extremely honored and emotional about tonight. "We have been building up for this tournament for a very long time and have worked very hard for this." It has been a tradition for Indonesian to win gold medals since Barcelona Olympic at 1992. On behalf of Indonesia we aim to continue the tradition, and we hope to grab at least one gold in every Olympic. How on next Olympic: London 2012. We have another two players, new, still boys and very young in weightlifting: Eko Yuli Irawan and Triyatno. The first medal for Indonesia in Beijing were grabbed from Eko Yuli (bronze, men weighlifting, 56 kilograms) and the 2nd is Triyatno (bronze, men weighlifting, 62 kilograms). So besides badminton, we depend on weightlifting player to get gold in London 2012. BAHASA Indonesia version at http://perbulutangkisan.blogspot.com/2008/08/perunggu-yulianti-serasa-emas.html