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The world governing body for badminton has apologised after four pairs of women's doubles players, including the top seeds, were thrown out of the Olympics for trying to deliberately lose group stage matches to engineer easier quarter-final draws.
"We are very, very sorry that this has happened, both for the players and for the sport," said Thomas Lund, chief executive of the Badminton World Federation (BWF). But addressing the media at Wembley Arena, where the previous evening crowds had booed and jeered leading players as they repeatedly hit shots wide or into the net, Lund rejected the notion that officials should have predicted the fiasco.
Several BWF employees said concerns had been raised when it was announced that the Olympic badminton events would begin with a round-robin group stage rather than, as before, being knockout from the start.
British badminton player Gail Emms, who won silver in the mixed doubles at the 2004 Games, said: "As soon as I heard about the group stage, six or seven months ago, I went: 'That's going to see people trying to fix the draw.' I knew it could happen."
This was "hindsight", Lund said, saying the group system had otherwise worked very well.
The chaos began on Tuesday when a Danish pair unexpectedly beat a strong Chinese duo, thus taking first place in group D. This left the Chinese scheduled to meet the winners of group A. At the deciding group A match that evening it became clear that neither the Chinese top seeds, Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli, nor their South Korean rivals, Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na, wanted to win and top their group. The referee intervened several times to warn the players.
Similarly absurd scenes followed in the next match as another South Korean duo, Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung, and Indonesian opponents Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii endeavoured to lose and thus secure an easier draw by finishing second.
The matter was referred to the BWF and the eight players were charged with breaching two parts of the players' code, "not using one's best efforts to win a match and conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport".
With IOC officials applauding tough action, it came as no surprise when the players were formally disqualified. Both the Indonesian and South Korean players appealed, leading to the highly unusual situation of the draw for the quarter-final being announced just half an hour before the matches were due to start.
The pairs who came third and last in the relevant groups, from Russia, Canada, Australia and South Africa, were promoted to the quarter-finals.
Lund said another complaint, by India's delegation, over a match allegedly thrown by a Japanese pair in the women's doubles, had been rejected. Overall, he said, the innovation of group stages throughout the badminton tournament had been "a tremendous success". He added: "But there has been a problem here and we need to take that problem very seriously."
Emms said the BWF had repeatedly ignored warnings, including just before the offending matches were played. She said: "Yesterday, after the Danish players beat the Chinese in the morning session, the team managers went to the organisers and said: 'We're a bit worried about these evening matches.' Nothing was done. Straight away they should have got all the players and coaches together and said: 'If there is any single sign of someone trying not to win you will all be disqualified.'
"I don't blame the players. The system was there. The organisers let it happen in one match and then they were stuck, they couldn't do anything about the second match. And now we're in this horrible situation.
"It's unfair to all the players. They just wanted to be medallists for their country. It's a tactic. This is why you need straight knockouts."
The fiasco was deeply unfortunate for badminton as a sport, Emms said. She added: "It's a minority sport which we want to showcase at the Olympics. Then this happens. It's taken the shine from all the other people who have worked really hard and fought for every match."
There have previously been concerns about Chinese badminton officials deciding in advance who should win when players from the country meet in tournaments. The online magazine Badzine published figures in December 2011 showing that of the 99 all-Chinese matches played in the year's major tournaments, 20 were walkovers or ended in a retirement. In China reaction was mixed, with widespread sympathy for the athletes, even from those who believed the BWF had acted correctly. Some web users said they had not fully understood the criticism until they saw the match. "Having seen the highlights video, I became quite angry," wrote a journalist, Cez Lin. "Although the match means paying attention to the strategies and tactics, to do it like this was unworthy of those who bought tickets and sat in front of the TV waiting to watch. Too irresponsible! The disqualification is as it should be."
Others said the coaches rather than the athletes should be disciplined.