Rio Olympics 2016: GB pair win badminton men’s doubles bronze

It is the first badminton medal for Team GB since Athens 2004 when Gail Emms and Neil Robertson landed silver in the mixed doubles.

“It’s like a kid at Christmas”, he said after the 21-18, 19-21, 21-10 doubles victory over Chinese duo Chai Biao and Hong Wei.

The No 22 ranked duo in the world were unable to back up their tremendous win on Monday over Hiroyukie Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa of Japan and were beaten 21-14, 21-18 by the fourth seeds who both won gold at London 2012.

“We’re one of these pairs that are kind of a bit up and down”.

“But in the next match we have not played that pair before, which is something we have got to be excited about”. Since the age of ten, when I started playing, it was, ‘Olympic medal, Olympic medal, Olympic medal.’ Now we…

“You have to believe you are good to achieve things”.

And Langridge knows that a medal match at a Games is the best stage of all to show the United Kingdom what their sport is all about.

Ellis said the pair were “deflated” after their semi-final loss and but hopes this medal will also inspire future stars.

“We’re so happy to do it for ourselves and badminton, it’s massive for our sport and I’m proud we can be part of it”.

“Until people actually watch it they can’t understand”.

“It’s just incredible, wonderful, and we can’t wait now to see him and Chris on the podium for the medal ceremony”.

“It is unbelievable – we are one of these pairs that are quite up and down – but this tournament we have shown our ability”.

“We give everything on court and you can see from our emotion how badly we wanted it – it means everything to be in the semi-finals. We had a tough semi-final and they were better than us, but we knew we had a chance today”, Ellis added.

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