BEIJING // The second-seeded Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia coasted to a 21-5, 21-7 win over Kestutis Navickas of Lithuania to advance to the Olympic badminton men's singles quarter-finals. Lee, who is bidding for Malaysia's first gold medal in the Olympics, will meet sixth-seeded Sony Dwi Kuncoro of Indonesia in Thursday's quarter-finals.
Dwi Koncoro defeated Finland's Ville Lang 21-13, 21-18. "I'll need to prepare my defence," said Lee.
"He (Sony) is a good attacking player. I feel like I am only 80 per cent now but hopefully will get better with each game."
Along with top-seeded Lin Dan of China, Lee is among the favourites to win the gold medal in men's singles.
Defending Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia was eliminated in the second round on Monday.
In other men's singles matches, South Korea's Lee Hyun-il overpowered Germany's Marc Zwiebler 21-13, 21-11.
Third-seeded Bao Chunlai of China survived a scare but held on to defeat Poland's Przemyslaw 21-11, 19-21, 21-13. Bao won the match in with a powerful smash that Przemyslaw returned into the net.
In men's doubles, Americans Howard Bach and Bob Malaythong defeated South African brothers Chris and Roelof Dednam 21-10, 21-16 to advance to the quarter-finals.
Malaythong and Bach will meet second-seeded Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Cai and Fu, who are third in the world rankings, defeated Jens Dyrloev Eriksen and Martin Hansen Lundgaard of Denmark 21-12, 21-11.
By reaching the quarter-finals, Malaythong and Bach have already advanced further than any American ever has in the Olympic badminton tournament, but the two are not satisfied.
"We want a medal," said Bach. "Gold would be nice but just to get a medal would be a huge achievement for us."
In mixed doubles, the top-seeded pair of Liliyana Natsir and Nova Widianto of Indonesia defeated South Koreans Han Sung-hun and Hwang Yu-mi 23-21, 21-19 to move into the quarter-finals.
* AP
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Libya's Gold
UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves.
The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.
Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.
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