8 Olympic Badminton Cheats Banned for Trying to Lose in Disgusting Match-fixing Scandal (pics)!
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| Women's doubles pair of (clockwise from top left) China's Wang Xiaoli (L) and Yang Yu, South Korea's Jung Kyung Eun (Top) and Kim Ha Na, Indonesia's Greysia Polii and Meiliana Jauhari and South Korea's Ha Jung-eun (L) and Kim Min-jung all implicated in a match fixing controversy. |
The crowd booed and jeered raucously at the women's badminton tournament at the London Olympics 2012 because they felt that some of the athletes weren't trying hard enough to win their games.Officials agreed with what fans saw and eight women – a doubles teams from China, two from South Korea and one from Indonesia – were thrown out of the London Games for violating badminton’s code of conduct specifically, “not using one’s best efforts to win a match.”
A strategy that involves engineering a road to the final that pits one against weaker opposition, it is something that happens in several sports, although not as overtly and disgracefully as this.
For example, in Soccer coaches may play a reserve or younger team in strategic games to engineer certain results. The coaches mask their game plan by claiming that since they have already qualified for the next round, they are "resting players" or "giving younger players an opportunity." This is accepted even though it is clear that the team they have put on the field is profoundly less capable of winning than their strongest team and the consequence of losing the game may have some benefit to the team.
This difference is that in such a case (Soccer example) the team on the field still tries their level best to win the game whereas the aforementioned badminton players were trying their level best to lose. That simply violates our innate understanding of competition and should be discouraged, especially when people pay good money on the promise of viewing a true competition.
WSJ reports
As punishment, all female badminton players should be required to wear cute dresses!
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