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3TrueFans said:
Certainly not keeping in line with the spirit of Olympic competition.
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I completely agree and glad they got sent home.

But...

At the same time is there actually rule against it? Otherwise can the OC just decide whenever you do something they don't like they can send you home?

This isn't Nam, there are rules.
 
Meh - no different than a few years back the Yankees losing their last couple of games intentionally to make sure the Rays won the division and thus getting a playoff matchup with the Twins.
 
GrindingAway said:
I completely agree and glad they got sent home.

But...

At the same time is there actually rule against it? Otherwise can the OC just decide whenever you do something they don't like they can send you home?

This isn't Nam, there are rules.
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Deadspin did an article about how they changed the tournament format in a way that this type of thing could happen. So it's not just the teams' fault, but the Olympics are supposed to be about the best in the world competing, not losing so you can dodge other teams to give yourself a better shot at a medal.
 
Why aren't these matches used to determine seeding so that the top seeds who earned their seed by winning have an easier road to winning it all, just like the NCAA basketball tournament??
 
This is according to the "Olympic Oath" page on Wikipedia:

The athlete, from the team of the organizing country, holds a corner of the Olympic Flag while reciting the oath :
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.

What these athletes did is despicable and does not include "spirit, sportsmanship, and honor." These are the Olympics not Survivor. I don't think it is completely out of line for a lifetime ban from the Olympics.
 
I think how they tanked was what made it bad for me, not even the tanking itself. Like others have said, pro teams do this all the time during the last week of the season but they at least play the game.
 
It's only pathetic because if they have to do that then they must have not believed they were the best.

Why is the crowd clapping half way through it? I'm surprised there wasn't booing..

If Spain got 4th place in their pool in basketball, do you think the U.S. would blow a game so they could play China in the first round instead??? Nope.
 
3TrueFans said:
Deadspin did an article about how they changed the tournament format in a way that this type of thing could happen. So it's not just the teams' fault, but the Olympics are supposed to be about the best in the world competing, not losing so you can dodge other teams to give yourself a better shot at a medal.
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This is what I was wondering about. I haven't looked into it but wondered how they had the tournament set up. Shouldn't they seed it so the best teams don't meet until the end?
 
If they had been tanking because of betting or something that would be one thing, but they were strategically throwing the game in pool play to get the position they wanted in the final bracket. Nothing wrong with that and it is the organizers fault for setting the tournament up such that teams might be incentivized to do so. They are being kicked out for making the officials look bad, not for undermining the game.

I don't see this as being any different than a NBA/NFL/MLB team pulling their starters in the last few games of the season once the playoffs are set.

Plus several of the teams were doing it to avoid meeting their countrymen before the final, which is also totally fine by me. Again, it's the organizers fault not the athletes.
 
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Clonefan94 said:
This is what I was wondering about. I haven't looked into it but wondered how they had the tournament set up. Shouldn't they seed it so the best teams don't meet until the end?
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My thought too. Why in the world would it be the better you do, the better the competition you play early?
 
Do people not read the article?
The Chinese players tried to rig the draw after its second-seeded pair unexpectedly lost to a Danish team in the morning. That placed the No. 2 pair on course for a semifinal meeting with Wang and Yu, instead of the final.

Wang and Yu then deliberately set out to lose so they would go into the bottom half of the draw. They hardly exerted themselves, and neither did the South Koreans, drawing jeers of derision from the crowd and warnings from the umpire and tournament referee Torsten Berg. Wang and Yu eventually got what they wanted by losing.

What caused this was an upset, that due to the limited length of the games messed up the seeding. Thus what the records showed what was the 2nd best differed from what expert consensus thought was. So the Chinese attempted to "game" there way back onto the side that they'd be favored to win(until the finals at least).More matches before bracketed play would help alleviate this issue but isn't particularly feasible due to the limited length of the games.
 
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