Badminton and Other Olympic Sports the USA Has Never Won a Medal.

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The United States is by a wide margin the best country throughout the entire existence of the Olympic Games, bringing home 1,022 gold awards since 1896. While the country has ruled in the pool, on the track and all through the Olympics overall, there are a modest bunch of sports where no American has at any point stepped on the platform. 

The U.S. will have opportunities to procure its first decorations in a few new occasions appearing in the Tokyo Olympics, including skating and debut swimming races, however there are additionally more seasoned games where the nation is as yet pursuing its first awards. In light of its Olympic history and Tokyo standpoint, it very well may be some time before the U.S. evades the pattern, as well. 

Here are the five Summer Olympic games where the United States has never brought home equipment: 

Badminton 

The U.S. has made some extreme memories in any event, progressing inside the five badminton competitions at the Olympics. People's singles and duplicates have been full-decoration occasions since 1992, while blended pairs entered in 1996. In seven Olympics with the game in question, the U.S. has just arrived at the quarterfinals of any competition one time, as the men's duplicates group of Howard Bach and Bob Malaythong came to the round of eight in the 2008 Beijing Games. 

The nation has one rival in both the people's singles competitions, just as a men's duplicates pair, at the 2020 Games. Timothy Lam is the 41st-positioned men's player, while Beiwen Zhang is the eleventh positioned player entering the ladies' singles competition. Siblings Phillip and Ryan Chew will likewise address USA Badminton in the men's copies competition. Zhang offers the U.S. its most obvious opportunity at winning an award across any of these five games. 

Handball 

The U.S. has not qualified for the people's Olympic handball competitions since 1996, when it was the host country for the Atlanta Games. 

The men's crew has taken an interest in the Olympic competition multiple times with its most noteworthy completion in 6th spot back in 1936 — when there were just six groups in the opposition. The men's group has dominated four all out matches across its six Olympic appearances. 

The ladies' crew has made it to the Olympics multiple times, all coming from 1984 to 1996. Its top completion was fifth spot and came in that first appearance. 

Cadenced aerobatic 

Cadenced aerobatic made its Olympic introduction as an individual occasion in 1984 and added a group occasion in 1996. Europe has totally overwhelmed the game since the start, with China and Canada as the solitary two nations from different mainlands to at any point guarantee a decoration across nine Olympics. 

The United States' most noteworthy completion in the occasion is eleventh spot, reached by Valerie Zimring during the boycotted 1984 Games in Los Angeles and Laura Zeng during the 2016 Games in Rio. The group's appearance in the 2016 Games was its first since the gathering was given a host country spot in 1996. The group completed in fourteenth spot out of 14 groups in Rio. 

In Tokyo, Zeng and Evita Griskenas will contend in the individual occasion, while Isabella Connor, Camilla Feeley, Yelyzaveta Merenzon, Lili Mizuno, Elizaveta Pletneva and Nicole Sladkov will go after the U.S. in the gathering occasion. 

Table tennis 

The U.S. has not won a decoration in table tennis since it was presented as an Olympic game in 1988, however there will be six American rivals in Tokyo. 

The U.S. table tennis crew highlights two marquee competitors: 21-year-old Kanak Jha in men's singles and group and 24-year-old Lily Zhang in ladies' singles and group. They are positioned 30th and 31st on the planet in their particular singles occasions. Zhang, a five-time public boss, has better chances of procuring a decoration in Tokyo in the wake of completing fourth in the 2019 Women's World Cup, however she is as yet thought to be a remote chance. Nikhil Kumar and Xin Zhou join Jha for the American men, while Huijing Wang and Juan Liu complete the ladies' group. 

Chen Wang claims the best American completion in Olympic table tennis history in the wake of arriving at the ladies' singles quarterfinals in Beijing. 

Trampoline 

Trampoline will show up during the Tokyo Games. Nine nations have joined to win the 30 decorations given out since 2000, yet the U.S. has not brought home any of them. 

Savannah Vinsant had the best completion of any American, setting seventh in 2012. The U.S. didn't have a men's or alternately ladies' finalist (top eight) in 2016, with Logan Dooley completing eleventh for the men and Nicole Ahsinger completing fifteenth for the ladies. 

Ahsinger will address the U.S. in the occasion indeed in Tokyo, while Aliaksei Shostak will contend on the men's side.

*Source- Internet.