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A badminton scandal, really?

Olympic badminton players kicked out of London Games. Really?

By Sally Jenkins, Thursday, August 2, 7:01 AM

LONDON — Who knew badminton, that game of the bored-silly rich and the backyard dads, could be so . . . bad? The first serve went into the net, and then the next serve went into the net. There was a return, and it went under the net. So now the shuttlecock contingent has rewritten the Olympic motto, Swifter, Higher, Stronger. It’s become Swifter, Higher, Don’t Lift A Finger.

In the Olympian standoff between China and South Koreaat Wembley Arena, one team nobly tanked while the other magnanimously dumped, setting off a contagion of match-throwing, fixing and take-a-diving, until eight athletes had to be expelled from the London Games. It’s the best comedy bit of the year: on one side of the net, see the Chinese pair Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang tick the birdie as enthusiastically as a couple of bored housekeepers flicking dust-rags in a motel room. On the other side, see the Koreans Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na chase it as energetically as a couple of sleeping corgis.

Now, if badminton has any appeal as an Olympic sport, it’s a game of quickness. The birdie — pardon me, shuttlecock — can move at speeds of 200 mph. Not in this Olympics, it doesn’t. In this Olympics, there is more motion from retired wing commanders dozing over their canes. In this Olympics, there is more action in a game of darts in a pub just before closing. In this Olympics the point isn’t to win, but to lose strategically in group play — and apparently as lethargically, flagrantly and obviously as possible — to manipulate your round-robin bracket and draw an easier opponent. “Depressing,” said chairman of the London Olympic organizing committee Sebastian Coe. Well, yeah, but also yelpingly funny.

Unless you are Thomas Lund, the gravely blazered chief operating officer of the Badminton World Federation. (Yes, there is one, and I think its headquarters are in the Duke of Beaufort’s garden.) Lund was forced to hold an emergency disciplinary conference late in the night, to review the tape. It showed this: a domino effect that began when the Chinese pair, who are, get this, world champions, tried to go down on purpose to stay on the opposite side of the draw from their Chinese countrywomen, Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei. The Koreans responded by lying down, too — as did a second Korean pair, provoking their Indonesian opponents to absolutely lay down flat. All in full view of a British audience, which, being accustomed to pretty good theater, became thoroughly disgusted and rained down boos and shouts of “Get off!”

By 11 a.m. Wednesday, Lund disqualified all eight players for “conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport.” This was one instance when there was none of the fussing around we see so often from Olympics officials, who have a sizeable tolerance for all sorts of crookedness. Take the tepid response of International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, who attended the badminton earlier on Tuesday but left shortly before the scandal. Rogge refused to comment, and instead the IOC released this statement: “The IOC takes note of the Badminton Federation’s decision to disqualify eight athletes after their unsporting behavior during yesterday’s competition.” Takes note?

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Thank you very much,but I can not fully understand what the article you mean.

Badminton event, the Chinese team's shame

Chinese team should think about it.

oh my god。There are literally many a new words for me。

终于考完了，3个小时，计算器都要打爆了，计算量很大的。可以回到Follow Me了。说几句英语。

Ok, I will read your article later on, but I need to have a good rest after my 3-hour exam.

The up leaders want to see the number of the medals but not the Olympic mottos. Actually, every big sport nations have the same problem as China. The decision from the strategy makers is not fair to our athletes. They are trained hardly for 4 years to go to London and to win a medal.

China badminton team shamed all Chinese. It's really a scandal. We should do nothing but disdain such a team.

This is the fault of the rules! Just like in economics, it is the rule that makes people go the wrong way. Incentive compatibility is also useful in making rules in sports.

In china , athletes just like robots. there‘s no personal volition，but order after order, so ……
25 years later,let's look back He Z.L. and this  cothurnus heroine's story.
Maybe, we should think deeply.