Infostrada Sports' Databox - A golden summer - September 2004  

Sport and Technology is delighted to announce Infostrada Sports as the new sponsor of its Databox section. Each newsletter, Infostrada Sports will supply sports data that is relevant to the content and issues of the month. This month, Infostrada Sports looks at cricket, badminton and taekwondo.

Nat West Series - England v West Indies
> The 4-0 win against the West Indies marked the second time this year that England had swept a Nat West series.
> The last time England recorded a whitewash series win was in 1978 when New Zealand were beaten 3-0.
> Richard Key's 221 in the First Test was England's highest individual score since 1990.
> England's winning score of 231 in the Third Test was the highest winning total ever scored at Old Trafford.
> West Indies' Chris Gayle scored the 10th fastest Test match century ever in the final match.

For more cricket action see this month's Website Profile: NatWest banking on cricketing success

Olympic Badminton
> The 2004 Olympic champions came from the Far East with China, Indonesia and Korea winning the five titles.
> China failed to win a single medal in the Men's Singles or Men's Doubles.
> The sport has been on the Olympic calendar since 1992.
> The only gold ever to be won by a nation outside these three went to Denmark.
> China won four golds in 2000. This is the best performance at an Olympic Games.

For more on badminton this month, see Case Study: IBF nets its Olympic Draw

Olympic Taekwondo
> The gold won by Chinese Taipei's Chen Chih Hsin was the first ever gold for her nation in the Olympic Games.
> The two golds and a silver made Chinese Taipei the most successful nation in 2004 Taekwondo events.
> Taekwondo was one of 10 sports the host nation Greece won at least one medal in in the 2004 Olympics.
> Vietnam's only Olympic medal is a silver won by Tran Hieu Ngan in the Women's Featherweight event in 2000.
> 18 different nations won medals in Olympic Taekwondo in 2000. That number was reduced to 13 in Athens.

Taekwondo is also featured in this month's View From the Editor: Computers versus Humans - a battle as large as the Olympics?

Source: EMPICS

Source: EMPICS

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