Rant number 215
I stand by my rant from yesterday. The Japanese must have known that they fucked up that dismount (massively. He bloody fell!) but it wasn't a deliberate thing.
Which makes them at a least a cut above the 8 who have been disqualified from the Badminton.
For most olympians, the Olympics is the pinnacle of their career. Nothing surely comes close. You need to be the leanest, meanest, best of the best!
Surely as a result, you must swell with pride. Never more than at the olympics, taking part is surely far more important than winning.
Which is why what took place really disgusts me.
Eight badminton players have been disqualified from the olympics for throwing matches. They were so blatant about it too!
Professional players knocking the shuttlecock repeatedly into the net is going to be noticed by even the least conscientious of viewers. The fact that they were doing it in front of thousands in the audience and around the world on TV so blatantly just shows a lack of respect for the game that they pertain to love.
Why would you do that? It's what you are passionate about?
Trying to play with the results to make your countries chances better just isn't acceptable.
We're apparently meant to be feeling sorry for them though - don't you know?
Yu Yang said, amongst some other rubbish 'You have heartlessly shattered our dreams. It's that simple, not complicated at all. But this is unforgivable.'
My heart bleeds, you cheating bitch. She's going to quit the sport now, before she gets banned no doubt. Why should you get away with stacking the deck when others are playing things fair? It's just rubbish.
Cheating is cheating, whatever you call it. When you've been caught out, maybe you should just put your hands up and take it like a man (yes I know she's a woman. But that's the expression!)
That the Koreans joined in, does not excuse them either!
I really do hope this is the end of my rants about the olympics. It should be a source for good, not a source for bad.
For audiences to boo you while you throw a match - and you not to respond is so shameful. I hope that they stop trying to explain themselves and take a good long look in the mirror.
Rant over.
What really irritated me about this is that they didn't even consider all the fans who had paid a bloody fortunes for tickets to see a badminton competition and were cheated out of it!
ReplyDeleteThis is part of why I still firmly believe that the Olympics should be about running, jumping and throwing better than anyone else - not how much sponsorship you can get, whether you can find an undetectable drug, judges who like you giving higher marks or anyone's opinion giving medals ut.
Indeed. People have paid a good amount of money for those tickets and travelled a long way. Whatever the excuse, even if they were 'saving themselves for the next round' each match should be competitive!
ReplyDeleteWhenever money creeps in, so does corruption!