alt: apparently they deliberately chucked the match.
think they won the first two games in their league, so they were already through to the knockout bit no matter what, but if they won the third as well they'd have to play their own second team next, putting one of them out, so to avoid this happening (and to save their energy) they played badly on purpose, hitting the net etc.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 9:52, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

cheating cunts
staple gold medals to their cocks and make them run through moss side.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 9:55, Reply)

not a new idea though
in the paper it says they've been doing this sort of thing for ages.
Football teams often rest key players in a similar situation, however their replacements don't generally try to lose....
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 9:58, Reply)

ah now i see it
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100173755/london-olympics-2012-were-the-badminton-players-too-stupid-even-to-pretend-they-were-trying/

i LOL'd slightly at the comments.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 10:12, Reply)

playing badly doesn't even come close to describing it though
it was like how a 3 year old would throw a match if you told them to.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 9:59, Reply)