Disaster for hosts as women shuttlers fall to S. Korea in team final

Great achievement: The South Korean women’s team celebrate their victory as a screen shows China’s He Bingjiao reacting during the women’s team final. — AFP

TEARS flowed as South Korea hit where it hurt most by snatching the women’s badminton team gold at China’s own den.

And Kim Ga-eun turned heroine as she justified her position as South Korea’s second women’s singles shuttler by producing a scintillating show to deliver the winning point in their 3-0 whitewash of China at the Hangzhou Asian Games yesterday.