Dane Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen was elected president of the International Badminton Federation (BWF) on Saturday, May 18, during the institution's Annual Congress at its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. The former Olympic singles champion at the 1996 Games in Atlanta obtained 145 votes, compared to 125 for Indonesian Justian Suhandinatafrom. Hoyer-Larsen, 47, the only European Olympic champion, succeeds the South Korean Kang Young-joong, who had chaired the BWF for eight years. The Dane affirmed that one of his tasks will be to restore the image of badminton, included in the program of the Olympic Games since 1992 in Barcelona, tarnished by a case of match-fixing at the last Olympic Games in London in 2012. Eight players (4 women's doubles pairs) representing China, South Korea and Indonesia, had been excluded for "not having done everything possible to win" from the group matches, in order to meet weaker opponents in the quarter-finals.
— Published on May 20, 2013