On July 3 1 day, London time, the women's doubles event of the London Olympic Games entered the final round of group competition. Group A and Zheng He will play against South Korea. The winner of this game will be the first in the group, and will play against China group Ching Tien/Zhao Leiyun in the final of14. In order to avoid China players, both sides hold a negative attitude towards the game. At the same time, the Korean group Hezhen/Jin Zhen took a negative attitude in the competition after defeating the Indonesian group Polly/Jiaohali, so as to avoid competing with their own player Zheng/.
Subsequently, the World Badminton Federation launched an investigation and held a hearing to discuss. BBC reported that after the badminton women's doubles match on Tuesday, two Korean badminton women's doubles teams, as well as a China team and an Indonesian team, were disqualified from continuing to participate in the London Olympic Games, and they made some fundamental mistakes that violated the sportsmanship. All four couples are willing to lose the game in order to get the ideal position in the next knockout.
The World Badminton Federation held a three-hour hearing on this matter. According to BWF, these four pairs of players are not only as simple as "passive competition", but their mistakes can even be elevated to the level of "hurting and insulting badminton". In fact, the actions of these four pairs of players have made the fans present at the game very dissatisfied. In the match between China women's doubles pair and South Korea's women's doubles pair Zheng, the performances of both sides "race against time" and "brave to lose" caused boos from the audience present.
After the hearing, the World Badminton Federation announced the punishment decision:
In the women's doubles competition held at Wembley Stadium on the evening of July 3 1 local time, four pairs of contestants were disqualified from continuing to participate in the London Olympic Games. Eight players who were disqualified from the competition included Korean players He Zhenen/Jin Zhen, Zheng/,Indonesian players Jiao Hari/Polly and China Group/Wang Xiaoli.
All the above eight players will be investigated and prosecuted for "not doing their best to win the competition" and "the competition behavior seriously violates the spirit of sports competition". Indonesia and South Korea have lodged complaints against this accusation, and BWF will hold a press conference later today to inform the results of the complaint.
At 23: 00 Beijing time (15), the World Badminton Federation held a press conference: the Appeal Committee of the World Badminton Federation upheld the original judgment and rejected the appeal of the South Korean team. The Indonesian team withdrew its complaint, while the China team did not file a complaint. World Badminton Federation Secretary-General Lund confirmed that this punishment only applies to the London Olympic Games, and will not affect these athletes to participate in other competitions, nor will it punish the badminton federations and coaches of the countries involved.
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