there was some vicious booing at that badminton match as soon as the crowd realized what was going down. the tournament setup is partially at fault for being broken enough to encourage round robin sandbagging (maybe go back to single match elimination?), but blatantly violating the spirit of the games, as well as wasting a massive amount of spectator ticket money is atrocious. if you're going to throw matches, at least try to make it look convincing. I haven't played badminton in 15 years and I probably still wouldn't miss a serve during a game.
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