主题：【原创】震惊 -- 大西洋14

Justin Murray Wrote:

Perfectly fine strategy. If you introduce penalties for "not playing your hardest", that creates too much subjectivity as we have no standards on what "hardest" means. This is done in sports all the time. NFL teams that secure home field advantage for the playoffs put their second and third string players in the final games. World Cup teams that secure a spot in the elimination round will back off in the final game of group play to avoid wasting energy.

If the organizers don't like the behavior, don't have group play or round robin stages and use the single elimination format.

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Stephen Borsher Replied:

When you consider that the women's gymnastic all around excludes the best qualified athletes by limiting each country to only two qualifiers, what choice do athletes have but to game the system. Honesty, integrity, and sensible rules start at the top. The politicians don't adhere to that either.

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10 hours ago

David Corwin Wrote:

The goal is to win the gold medal, not this particular match. The is a commonly strategy in sports. During the EUFA European Cup last month, there was a debate on whether Spain should have score the goal in the last few minutes of the group match to revive Italy. Even armies will retreat temporarily to secure a better position for battles.

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jack wang Wrote:

This is totally unfair to the players. The organizer made up this stupid rules of ' win for a loss'. So the players would rather 'lose to win the interest'. The officials who made the game plan not making sense should be punished, not the players.

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Sean Wang Wrote:

With all the top seeds removed, perhaps now Denmark or Australia may finally have a chance in this sport.

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David Wilson Wrote:

If the pair wins, they don't gain anything but they hurt their country's interests. Who made such stupid rules?

国外淫民不够普世，不理解“奥运精神”啊？不如国内的好忽悠啊。链接：http://online.wsj.com/community/groups/asias-question-day-783/topics/fair-athletes-try-lose-order

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Disqualifying the players is wholly unfair. They are punished for the failings of the administrators. Apparently it was the organiser's wish that the players expend their best efforts in reducing their chances of winning the tournament. Would that have been any more ludicrous?

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Believe me, the British would do the same if they were given the opportunities, but they have a better system to prevent their sports men/women from making these kind mistakes. For example, in football, the last group matches all have to be played at the same time...... So, this is really an administrative issue rather than a scandal as portraited by the British press. I am sure the British reporters knew this was a consequence of the bad administrative system and can be prevented, but they are not interested in that. They just want to make a meal out of this for themselves.

Please stop pointing the fingers - Chinese, Korean, badminton..... Human beings are more or less the same. The British is no better species. However, there is indeed a hard lesson to learn for the sports administrators of the developing countries - you need to improve your system, learn something from that of the western dominated sports!

The Olympics is fortunately not run by the British press, so believe me again, badminton is safe in Olympics.