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[Saba Sports News] The 2024 Olympics opened smoothly in the romantic city of Paris. Recently, Japanese badminton beauty Shida Chiharu expressed her complaints about the on-site lighting after adaptive training, which has attracted strong attention from fans. According to Japanese media reports, Shida Chiharu frowned multiple times during the adaptive training and seemed to have significant doubts about the on-site lighting. After the training, Shida Chiharu expressed her distress to Japanese reporters, saying that the lighting at the competition venue seemed to be dazzling. She further explained, “When serving or hitting the shuttlecock, if it overlaps with the light, there will be situations where I can’t see the shuttlecock.” It turns out that due to the large size of the competition venue and the lighting design for the badminton competition at the Paris Olympics, which does not use dim lighting around the court but keeps the entire venue brightly lit, combined with the Olympic’s purple main color and unique pink feather shuttlecock, the lighting changes can cause dazzling effects. Regarding this issue, the Japanese badminton team seems to have no effective solution and can only rely on the athletes to adjust themselves. Some fans expressed that besides adapting to it, there is no other way, but the players can adjust the serving position to avoid overlapping with the lighting.