Olympics-Badminton-Guatemala's Kevin Cordon in semi-finals with shock win

TOKYO (Reuters) -When Kevin Cordon was 12, he moved from rural Zacapa, Guatemala alone to the capital city to pursue his dreams of playing badminton at the Olympics. But that seemed beyond Cordon, now 34, who has languished low in the men's singles rankings for years, sustaining injury after injury that kept him from playing in top form. On Saturday, however, the world's number 59 player crushed better-ranked Korea's Heo Kwanghee 21-13 21-18, and made it into the semi-finals of the Tokyo 2020 Games.



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