Olympic badminton live stream: Watch online – August 19
By John Buhler
Day 9 of Olympic badminton will feature the Men’s Singles Semifinals, the Women’s Singles Finals, and the Men’s Doubles Finals. Here’s how to watch online.
As Olympic badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil winds down entering Day 9 at Riocentro on Friday morning, there will be several medals up for grabs in three events.
The Men’s Singles will have its two semifinals matches, the Women’s Singles will complete its finals, and so will the Men’s Doubles in the finals stage. Olympic badminton action will be at promptly 8:30 a.m. local time (7:30 a.m. ET) at Riocentro for the bronze medal in Women’s Singles between China’s Li Xuerui and Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara.
The most anticipated match on the slate for Friday morning will be in the Men’s Singles Semifinals between No. 1 seed Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia versus. No. 3 seed Lin Dan of China. That match between badminton rivals begins at 9:20 a.m. local time (8:20 a.m. ET).
The other Men’s Singles Semifinals begins when Lee versus Lin ends at 10:10 AM local time (9:10 a.m. ET). That match for a chance at Olympic gold will be between Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen and China’s Chen Long. China is guaranteed to medal in the Men’s Singles, as both Lin and Chen are semifinalists in the event.
For Olympic gold in the Women’s Singles, top seed from Spain Carolina Marin will face V. Sindhu Pusarla of India at 11:00 a.m. local time (10:00 a.m. ET). The last match of the day will be for Olympic gold in the Men’s Doubles. Going for gold will be Maylasia’s Goh V. Shem and Tan Wee Kiong. They’ll face China’s Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan at promptly 11:50 a.m. local time (10:50 a.m. ET).
To not miss a second of Day 9’s Olympic badminton action, it is still likely best to make use of the NBCOlympics.com live stream. That being said, both USA and MSNBC will have coverage of Day 9’s events.
USA will begin covering Olympic badminton at 9:00 a.m. ET in conjunction with the Women’s Bronze Medal match in water polo until 11:30 a.m. ET. From 11:30 PM ET, USA will air badminton until 1:00 p.m. ET in conjunction with a bronze medal match in Women’s Field Hockey. Simultaneously, MSNBC will briefly air Olympic badminton from 11:00 a.m. ET to 12: 00 p.m. ET.
Date: Friday, August 19th
Time: 7:30 a.m. ET
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Venue: Riocentro
TV Info: USA (9:00 a.m. ET), MSNBC (11:00 a.m. ET)
Live Stream: NBCOlympics.com
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How will the highly anticipated Men’s Singles Semifinals shake out between China’s Lin and Malaysia’s Lee? Will Spain’s Marin bring home gold in the Women’s Singles Final? Will it be China or Malaysia taking home gold in the Men’s Doubles? Find out all that and more during Day 9 of Olympic badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.