Of course I asked for odds thinking the appeal had not been heard. If he offered me decent odds I would have checked this and placed a bet accordingly, as I would have thought common sense would have prevailed. He did not, the appeal had been heard and no bets struck.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it was not pocket talking. Cheer up sumo, it is not the end of the world and try not to blaspheme on the forum, it makes you look like some kind of chav chelsea fan.

wrong wrong wrong....they're r playing for the gold not to crowd please,,,,IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME as athletes crawling in their heats or football teams not playing to win to avoid tougher apponents in the next round.....just another example of incompetent officials

Anyone remember this?

In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, committing ourselves to a sport without doping and without drugs, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honor of our teams.

It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it.

And that's what gets results.

The road race cycling ... other team members deliberately did not go all out (or at least tried to slow the Peleton up) to assist other team members ... so what is the difference ... as these cyclists definitely weren't trying to win for themselves ...

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The road race cycling ... other team members deliberately did not go all out (or at least tried to slow the Peleton up) to assist other team members ... so what is the difference ... as these cyclists definitely weren't trying to win for themselves ...

The difference is, its a different sport and cannot be compared.  And you aren't comparing like for like. Cycling is basically a team event.

I watched part of some of the games in question. 
What the did wasn't playing softly but actually cheating, deliberately serving into the net etc.  And there is a MASSIVE difference between not putting in the effort 100% to win and trying to lose.

To compare like for like:
Football: Scoring an own goal on purpose.
Cycling:  Blocking your own man to allow someone else in another team to win, on purpose.
Cricket: Bowling wides so it runs out of play and gives your opponent free runs, on purpose.
Etc etc etc.

Now clearly, in the above examples (and I could give many more), if this happened then it would be infringing so many sporting laws that bans would take place (for example, pakistan i the cricket).

For me it was:
1) Outright cheating.
2) Against olympic spirit and
3) Showing a huge disrespect to the paying fans who had payed a lot of money to at least see a spectacle.

I am glad they are banned.

At the time of writing, China have ordered their players/staff to apoligise and that to me says they know what they were doing is wrong.

1) Outright cheating.
Serving in the net is cheating? The matches were not fixed! You have two teams already qualified not wanting to win. If something is fixed the result is pre determined. No way of knowing which teams was going to win/lose these games.
2) Against olympic spirit and
The Olympic Spirit? I am sure old Pierre would love to know the games are now full of over paid pros and sponsored by fast food and fizzy drink companies.
3) Showing a huge disrespect to the paying fans who had payed a lot of money to at least see a spectacle.
Are people who paid to watch Chelsea matches in the CL going to get refund? What has the crowd got to do with people being DQ?

should be thrown into jail like the pakistani cricketers

When both teams are trying to lose for strategic reasons , it is hardly match fixing .

Swimmers I suspect quite often do not swim full out in the heats  , I am sure occasionally to obtain a certain lane , so is that against the so-called Olympic ideal .  Likewise other sports .

Think the decision to ban the badminton players is ridiculous .  Officialdom which created the situation is more guilty of idiocy than the people on court . If the outcome of a match like this is irrelevant to the competition it should not be played , it should be declared a tie .  Pretty obvious . That other sports have the same stupid rules is irrelevant  , its just easier to not try in soccer than in badminton . Know we have to go back to the sixties for proven non trying / match fixing in these isles , Bronco and Peter etc , but lots of other dodgy results have been noticed in soccer but no players have been banned . Fines yes probably , although not interested enough in soccer to bother to find out , just a gut feeling from over the years .

But as usual the wrath of the organisers descends on the weakest link .  If they had been from the USA or Britain I doubt they would have had the same treatment.

Yes blame Coe because the badminton players cheated.

As ever, you have ranted and ranted without actually addressing any of the issues.   

The main issue being, that there is a MASSIVE difference between not trying your hardest and actually trying to lose.

To give an example, my team was in the final of the fa cup.  Now, it was such a big deal that nobody wanted to get injured so in games leading up, there were not so many hard tackles flying in etc and my team missed out on promotion.
This was accepted by the fans, the players will still trying, just being careful etc.
If however, my team had started to score own goals on purpose, the fans would have been mad and the team would have been in BIG trouble.

That is the case here.  It wasn't that the badminton players were not trying their hardest, but actually hitting the ball out/into the net on purpose in order to lose.

Surely you people aren't denying that they FIXED the result of that match.

They are lucky they only got DQ'd.

Perhaps another example is British Triathlon selecting athletes which are 'Domestiques' for other athletes .....

These domestiques aren't the quickest triathletes that Britain has but have been selected purely to help someone else .... while it also goes against BTA charter that it is not a team sport ....

forest000....if u try harder to read i suggested "knock out"...solution o.k.....not blaming COE?...y the f NOT ...OF OF COURSE IT WASNT THE GREEDY BANKerS FAULT EITHER WAS IT....coes been on air spouting on about them...he really wants to look in the mirror and ask himself who's that pr*t...the rule is WIN THE GOLD