Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Olympic badminton booed

  • LONDON -- The world doubles badminton champs apparently are good at losing, too.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Badminton authorities have launched disciplinary proceedings against four womens doubles pairs for appearing to try and lose their matches at the London Olympics to secure a favorable draw.
  • (FOXSports.com)
  • The Olympic badminton tournament was thrown into chaos on Wednesday one from Indonesia and two from South Korea - were booed off court by irate spectators at Londons Wembley Arena on Tuesday.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • LONDON – Badminton chiefs are likely to change their Olympic format after embarrassing scenes on Tuesday saw two womens doubles pairs appear to deliberately throw a match. Angry fans at Wembley Arena booed and jeered once it became clear that No.
  • (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • Fans jeered the Chinese and South Korean Olympic women's badminton doubles teams for poor play that The four women were booed by the crowd as they exited after Korea won 21-14, 21-11.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • You dont expect to see words like farce and scandal and chaos in stories about Olympic Badminton.
  • (NPR News)

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