Everything seemed to have gone smoothly at Porte de la Chapelle, for the
“dress rehearsal”
for the Olympic Games.
The best badminton players on the planet gathered, from March 5 to 10, in Paris to compete in the French International Badminton Championships.
A decisive meeting for the champions of this sport, crucial for Olympic qualification.
The atmosphere was festive, the young people were vocal in the stands, the champions were there, satisfied with the playing conditions. The show lived up to expectations, the journalists - including Asians, the majority in the room press - came in large numbers to observe and relay this event.
In short, everything seemed perfect.
However, an external incident tainted the image of this Parisian week for world badminton.
“Someone opened the bedroom door in the middle of the night and someone even tried to get in”
Tai Tzu Ying, on Instagram
On her Instagram account, the Taiwanese champion Tai Tzu Ying, third player in the world and world star of badminton - she was world number 1 for 214 weeks -, noted and shared an important dark point in her Parisian adventure.
Resident of a hotel located, according to Le Parisien, 2 kilometers west of the competition site, in the new Adidas Arena (Paris XVIII), Tai Tzu Ying denounced the attempted intrusion by an unidentified individual in his hotel room.
“Someone opened the bedroom door in the middle of the night and someone even tried to get in
,” she testified on Instagram.
To protect herself, the one who stopped in the semi-finals in Paris barricaded herself with what she had on hand, and in particular furniture from her room.
His compatriots followed him, like Yang Po Han, 26th player in the world.
The Taiwanese added on her social networks that
“the neighborhood seemed dangerous.”