The Prince of Badminton in the toughest group of the Olympics

According to the 'draw' made on Friday, 41 players from 36 countries are competing in men's singles. They will compete in the preliminary stage in 13 groups. A group consists of 3 or 4 players .

According to that, Prince is in group 'P'. Where the world number two ranking and two-time world champion Victor Axelsen of Denmark and Misha Zilberman of Israel and Nahat Nguyen of Ireland, who have played three times in the Olympics, are present. Missa, who played in the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympics, is a medalist at the European Championships. Iris Nguyen is also a European U-17 Championship gold winner. After competing in the

round robin, the top player in the group will be knocked out. Each match will be a best of three . The badminton competition will be held at the Porte de la Chapelle Arena in Paris from July 27 to August 5.

The top 13 BWF world-ranked athletes were ranked . Each group has 1 person.

Nepali badminton is about to participate in the Olympics for the first time. Prince got this opportunity in tripartite invitation quota . He is also a player who has reached the world number one for juniors in Nepal.

Prince, who won two bronze medals in doubles at the 13th South Asian Games on home soil, also played in Hangzhou Asiad in China last year. He was defeated in the round of 32 in Asiad. He has achieved success in more than a dozen national competitions. Now Prince has returned home after training in Sri Lanka .

For the upcoming Olympics, seven players from Nepal including Prince are going to participate . Santoshi Shrestha of athletics, Alexander Shah and Duwana Lama of swimming, Santu Shrestha of table tennis, Manita Shrestha Pradhan of judo and Sushmita Nepal of shooting will participate in it.

Santu of table tennis won the South Asian qualifying tournament and booked a ticket to Paris. Other players are selected through different quotas depending on the game. He is the third player in Nepali Olympic history to qualify for the Olympics. Earlier, Taekwondo's Sangina Vaidya and Deepak Bista had been selected and played in the Olympics.

Currently, while Alexander is training in America, Duwana Thailand, Santu Australia and Prince Sri Lanka, Sushmita, Santoshi and Manita are training in Nepal, according to the Nepal Olympic Committee.