Monday, August 06, 2012

When Badminton Goes Wrong

Dave Barry on the Olympics scandal. An excerpt:

Apparently these women were whacking the shuttlecock all over the place. The officials got upset and the crowd was booing, especially when a slow-motion replay revealed that, during several points, the players were holding their rackets by the wrong ends. The same thing happened in a later women’s doubles match between South Korea and Indonesia, with both teams again apparently trying to lose, as evidenced by the fact that they hit the shuttlecock onto the roof an Olympic-record 358 times.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/02/2925122/dave-barry-first-olympic-scandal.html#morer#storylink=cpy

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