Olympic female badminton players face charges

regulus · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:16

I'm almost speechless. Since when did the BWF grew a set of balls?? Chinese has been doing it for years and nothing is ever done.

Fantastic decision. A shame that the crowds don't get to see the top players in action now but someone had to draw the line somewhere. Again, awesome decision.

Skeeter · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:19

Oh, looks like the round robin format was a new thing. They will surely go back to a knock-out after this then?

lcg · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:20

Good news. It was disgraceful sportsmanship.

Marky · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:23

Great decision. They should be ashamed...

physichull · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:24

Skeeter said:
Oh, looks like the round robin format was a new thing. They will surely go back to a knock-out after this then?

Surely they've got to. Its a ridiculous way to do it because we end up with situations like we did the other day.

edscdk · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:30

Fine them the money they were paid for the match (nothing I suspect) and carry on with a warning...

MooMoo444 · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:32

Good result

A fine would have been horrifying

regulus · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:33

It's a tough one. On the one hand it's nice for someone with little chance of even winning a match, get a chance to play more than one game. Scott Evans v Lin Dan comes to mind. 4 years training and competing to get a draw against the greatest singles player to ever play this game. It sucks. Yes, it's life but it still sucks. Round robin seems to be a good idea but naturally it'll be rife with manipulation, as we saw.

Perhaps a system where a round robin is still used, but the draws are made AFTER the round robin has been completed.

regulus · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:35

edscdk said:
Fine them the money they were paid for the match (nothing I suspect) and carry on with a warning...

Eh, no. Because they will do it again. Thorsten Berg did warn them repeatedly to no avail. They will cheat, lie and manipulate to get ahead. Maybe in lesser competitions it's fine, but not at the Olympics.

A line had to be drawn.

sketchytom · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:37

Kainz said:
I saw some of this yesterday. It was very odd to see.

After the official came on to warn them to put on a 'show', one of them stated something along the lines of "We are already through to the next round, why waste energy".

Totally wrong attitude imo.

its just a game plan for being more prepared for the round that actually counts

just unfortunate for the people who paid

regulus · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:38

sketchytom said:
its just a game plan for being more prepared for the round that actually counts

just unfortunate for the people who paid

It has nothing to do with being prepared for the next round or saving energy. It has to do with the draws and manipulating it.

Robbo · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:40

Brilliant decision. Such 'athletes' deserve nothing.

Aesir · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:48

Glad to see they didn't get away with it

regulus · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:48

Just have a feeling China won't take this lying down. Won't be surprised at all if they withdraw all their players.

Robbo · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:50

regulus said:
Just have a feeling China won't take this lying down. Won't be surprised at all if they withdraw all their players.

Too bad for China then, I hope they have a good flight home.

physichull · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:53

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Skeeter · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:54

regulus said:
It's a tough one. On the one hand it's nice for someone with little chance of even winning a match, get a chance to play more than one game. Scott Evans v Lin Dan comes to mind. 4 years training and competing to get a draw against the greatest singles player to ever play this game. It sucks. Yes, it's life but it still sucks. Round robin seems to be a good idea but naturally it'll be rife with manipulation, as we saw.

Perhaps a system where a round robin is still used, but the draws are made AFTER the round robin has been completed.

Is there a large enough number of entrants to have a round robin format where only the winner of the group goes through? More groups with less people in?

MooMoo444 · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:58

regulus said:
Just have a feeling China won't take this lying down. Won't be surprised at all if they withdraw all their players.

They'd only spite themselves, the games would go on regardless.

NZB · 1 Aug 2012 at 14:23

regulus said:
Just have a feeling China won't take this lying down. Won't be surprised at all if they withdraw all their players.

Or it will spur them on to do better and end up winning all the golds

Calabi · 1 Aug 2012 at 14:44

Just watched it and never seen anything like it. So blatant its, unbelieveable, I'd be annoyed if I paid to see that.