Down a game and twice on the
brink of defeat, the world's top team, Rexy Mainaky and Ricky Subagja of
Indonesia, changed strategy, went for more smashes and rallied to beat
Malaysia's Cheah Soon Kit and Yap Kim Hock, 5 - 15, 15 - 13, 15 - 12, to win
the men's doubles title.
Ge Fei and Gu Jun of China
captured the women's gold, beating South Korea's Gil Young-ah and Jang Hye-ock,
15 - 5, 15 - 5. The younger Chinese team took the title from the world's
premier pair from South
Korea , who won the world championship in
1995.
In the men's gold medal match,
Subagja and Mainaky, who have been together since 1990, dropped their first
game of the tournament and trailed by 12 - 11 in the second. Digging out shots
from the floor and flicking the shuttlecock back over the net with snaps of the
wrist, the Indonesians gained the serve and went on a 4 - 1 run to even the
match at one game each.
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