Olympic Badminton Thread
 

Whether you're a fan of shuttlecock or fancy getting tangled in someone's meshy net, everyone can appreciate the gayest form of tennis imaginable. Any fans?

I play occasionally with friends at the leisure centre (like once a month is what I mean by occasionally)

It's safe to say I'm pretty ****.

God damn it Shaun add Olympic to the title

Otherwise this sub-forum shall descend into anarchy

Oh this is in the olympic section :suspect:

I've never watched people play it that would put me to sleep

don't you ****ing dare tell me what to do jayson, I will merk you

This is the only sort of sport im slightly good at \o/



Unless we're classing competitive eating

On at 8.30 in the morning :pipe:

I used to be pretty good at badminton :pipe:

Yay badminton

It's so fast! It won't

Didn't realise GB are playing atm

Susan Egelstaff wins her group game

Our Mixed doubles are out already

/dies

Great game at the minute between Ouspeth and some guy from Sweden

Do love a bit of Badminton I won't lie

Just read that 3 double pairs for the women were trying to lose on purpose to manipulate the draws for the next round and might be disqualified.

Naught naughty!

Silly buggers.

Watched the China/Indonesia men's singles match earlier; mental how good they are and focused!

Hahah they could have atleast made it less obvious :/

All 8 players have been disqualified now, good :hmph:

Muahahaha does this mean they're beaten peers will progress or they're next round matches will just get a bye?

Matthew I need answers.

Oh it's round robin.. hmm how must this affect it

I don't know, I just don't know ok

You might as well get out of the thread then.

Eight badminton stars accused of playing to lose are disqualified from the Olympics, according to reports.

The badminton stars accused of throwing matches in the women's doubles have been disqualified from the Olympics.

Indonesian Olympic team leader Erick Thohir said eight female badminton players have been kicked out of the competition for unsporting conduct after trying to lose matches in order to receive more favourable placing in the play-offs.

He added that the Indonesian team will appeal the decision. The South Korean team is also understood to have appealed.

The Badminton World Federation investigated the doubles players from China, South Korea and Indonesia, finding them guilty of "not using one's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport" in matches on Tuesday night.

Spectators booed as the female players served into the net, hit shots long or wide, and employed time-wasting tactics as they appeared to try to engineer themselves a better draw in the next round of the competition.

All four pairs had already qualified for the last eight but top spots were still to be settled.

The fiasco began when Chinese top seeds Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang started to show little interest in beating Koreans Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na to finish top of Group A.

This would mean avoiding compatriots and second seeds Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei at least until the final.

The Koreans responded by copying China and referee Thorsten Berg emerged to warn all the players. The match restarted and the Koreans went on to win 21-14 21-11.

But that was not the end of the matter as a second Korean pair, the third seeds Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung, then attempted to throw their match against Indonesia's Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.

Their motive was apparently an attempt to avoid Wang and Yu in the quarter-finals, an outcome they failed to achieve as they eventually won 18-21 21-14 21-12. The Indonesians in turn had also tried to lose the game.

Berg intervened and disqualified the players in the second game, prompting a roar of approval from the angry crowd, but quickly reversed his decision.

A disciplinary hearing took place on Wednesday morning.

IOC Vice President Craig Reedie, the former head of the international badminton federation, welcomed the decision.

He said: "Sport is competitive. If you lose the competitive element, then the whole thing becomes a nonsense.

"You cannot allow a player to abuse the tournament like that, and not take firm action. So good on them."

IOC spokesman Mark Adams added: "We applaud the federation for having taken swift and decisive action.

"Such behaviour is incompatible with the Olympic values."

The disqualified players are world doubles champions Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang of China and their South Korean opponents Jung Kyun-eun and Kim Ha-na, along with South Korea's Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung and Indonesia's Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.

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