Indonesian badminton player Christi is dissatisfied with the Nagoya Asian Games schedule: two games in one day and overnight games, the organizing committee has done bad things to the athletes

Christy. (File photo, Associated Press)

[Special Correspondent Nian Miaoyun/Reporting from Nagoya] Indonesian world champion Jonatan Christie lost to Singaporean player Luo Jianyou in the quarterfinals of the Asian Games men's singles in Nagoya and was definitely out of the running for a medal. After the game, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the schedule. Not only were there two games in one day, many people played until early morning or even overnight. He said that the organizing committee had done bad things to the athletes and they didn't care about the players at all.

Chris played two games a day in advance. From the first game at 9:40 in the morning, he waited until around 1 a.m. the next day to start the game. The game ended at 2 a.m. He said: "I didn't fall asleep until about 3:30 in the morning and got up at 9 o'clock the next day. I felt a little "low power."" He also criticized the arrangement of this schedule as really unsatisfactory and did not take the players' physical condition into consideration. "They did bad things to the athletes and don't care about the athletes at all."

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Although he was dissatisfied with the schedule, Christie generously praised the performance of his opponent Luo Jianyou. "He played very well both offensively and defensively. I was a bit weak myself, so I let Luo Jianyou control the game." After Luo Jianyou advances to the top four, he will compete with South Korea's dark horse Yoo Tae-bin for the gold medal match.