The Dark side of Olympics : Badminton players trying to lose

Chinese badminton pair Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli claim that they were only conserving energy in their doubles match against the korean pair. Well the crowd and Gail Emms feel otherwise ! Here are some tweets from Gail. ( Emms won silver for Great Britain eight years ago with partner Nathan Robertson.) Were serving deliberately out! Incredible scenes and crowd have been booing! — Gail Emms (@gailemms) July 31, 2012 Ok on court 2 was WD china vs Korea. Both pairs TRYING to lose!!! This is why the group system DOESN?T work!!! Tactically play for a gd draw — Gail Emms (@gailemms) July 31, 2012 Match finished. Koreans won. They face chinese pair and really didn?t want to. Indonesians now being booed. — Gail Emms (@gailemms) July 31, 2012 Crowd rightly chanting ?off off off? about the players! All problems due because of group stages. — Gail Emms (@gailemms) July 31, 2012 Both teams were trying to lose ! to avoid facing their own country?s second pair. Hence obviously increasing the chance of a medal. Though Yang claims since they have already qualified they were only trying to preserve energy. ?Actually these opponents really were strong,? Yang told Reuters. ?This is the first time we?ve played them and tomorrow it?s the knockout rounds, so we?ve already qualified and we wanted to have more energy for the knockout rounds. ?Really, it?s not necessary to go out hard again when the knockout rounds are tomorrow.? According to Emms, the same situation is currently unfolding in South Korea?s doubles game with Indonesia.

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