The crazy performances involving Badminton match fixing

Seasoned professional, highly skilled in their sport, must have been watching their colleagues with despair in the last of the Badminton group games. Women's doubles in the sport normally offers up an experience that is both fast-paced and intense. However South Korea, China and Indonesia set about putting up a display that could only be described as astounding, and not the good kind! In a bid to manipulate the draw for the knockout stages four sets of doubles teams made it obvious to the watching nation they they did not want to win, oblivious of the fact that in doing so in a way that was so patently clear they ultimately cost themselves a place in the knockouts all together. With performances of sheer stupidity, going as far as deliberately serving into the net and hitting standard shots out, they have cost their places in the further round of London 2012 Women's Doubles Badminton. How Indonesia and South Korea can try and appeal is beyond me and beyond the expectant crowd who had gathered to watch some of the finest women's badminton players in the world. The longest rally in the first game between China's Yu Yang/Wang Xiaoli and South Korea's Jung Kyung-eun/Kim Ha-na actually managed the impressive feat of only 4 shots. The aim of the game was to avoid winning in a bid to miss playing the Chinese number 1 seeds. While they thought it was a tactical move the Badminton World Federation had the last laugh and gave them the boot from the competition!