The Yonex All England Open kicks off in two week's time and, as the world's most popular Grand Prix event, the tournament entries show a host of the biggest names in badminton, including 17 Olympic medal winners.    Topping the bill in the men's singles event will be Denmark's Peter Gade, gunning for his second All England title after first winning the event in 1999. Olympic gold medallist Ji Xinpeng - who stopped the Dane in his tracks last year - heads a strong Chinese contingent which also includes the 2000 champion and Sydney bronze medallist Xia Xuanze (pictured) and World Junior Champion Bao Chunlai.  Indonesia's Taufik Hidayat steps out in his first world event this year. As runner-up for the last two years on the trot, will he finally grab the title that eludes him in Birmingham?  Current world number one Camilla Martin as usual finds herself amidst some tough Chinese opposition in the women's singles event, including Olympic champion and last year's All England winner Gong Zhichao, and 1999 World Championship runner-up Dai Yun. Mia Audina of the Netherlands will be hoping to repeat her giant-killing success of last year when she ousted China's Ye Zhaoying, preventing the former World Champion from bagging her fourth consecutive All England title. In the men's doubles, Candra Wijaya and Sigit Budiarto join forces once more  in a bid to reclaim some of the magic which helped them snare the 1997 World Championship title in Glasgow. A doping scandal saw Budiarto (pictured) sidelined and led to Wijaya's gold-medal winning partnership formation with Tony Gunawan.  But now they've gone their separate ways once more, with Gunawan teaming up with Budiarto's former partner Halim Haryanto for this 4* Grand Prix event.  According to reports in the asian press, Korea's hopes in this event have taken a tumble, with Kim Dong Moon and Lee Dong Soo pulling out, leaving respective partners Ha Tae Kwon and Yoo Yong Sung to team up with back-up players.  The host nation's best hopes come in the doubles disciplines - world number eight pair Simon Archer and Nathan Robertson spearhead the campaign, and Archer goes again in the mixed event with new partner Gail Emms.  With the absence of the top Chinese and Korean pairs, the women's doubles title is there for the taking. As the highest-ranked pair entered in the event, could Denmark's Helene Kirkegaard and Rikke Olsen
be the first European pair to win the event in 20 years?  All of the Sydney medallists are represented in the mixed doubles, although China's Zhang Jun and Gao Ling are the only ones to have kept their winning partnership for the All England. England's Jo Goode is out due to her pregnancy, while Indonesia's Tri Kusharyanto teams up with Indarti Issolina and Minarti Timur partners Bambang Suprianto. 

 The tournament draw will be released next Thursday, 1 March.