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Originally Posted by bomber317
I'm not sure I get the whole situation.
The Chinese pair were throwing the match so they could finish not at the top of their group. This way, they don't have to face the other Chinese team until the Gold medal match.
So the Koreans tried to lose first to make the Chinese play each other earlier. But then both pairs of Koreans started to do this and Indonesia got involved?
Why would the Indonesians want to throw their match against Korea?
And shouldn't the Koreans have protested the match as soon as China started to lose purposefully?
From the article it sounded like many teams approached the organizers before and mentioned this would be a problem.
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That's how I read it too. Logically, such a protest would have been the right action. But the odd thing here is that the point of losing was to get an easier match-up. So the governing body set up a goofy situation where losing was preferable to winning. In this scenario, winning properly and winning via disqualification carries worse results than losing does.
Reminds me of this:
http://www.snopes.com/sports/soccer/barbados.asp