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Can they please leave him there till it finishes.Boris Johnson stuck on a zip wire.
Actually, probably the wrong thread TBH.
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***Official*** The Olympics is **** Thread
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grecian
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Tempted to make a joke about an high-class ******, but I'm better than that surely?
Somerset
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Actually it was NZ who tried to manipulate the result to ensure South Africa scored a bonus point for a large win. I think this case is slightly different since the badminton players intended to lose from the outset whereas New Zealand initially tried to win and only gave up when victory was no longer possible. Also its different since NZ did that to improve their chances of qualifying (rather than how you put it as attempting to eliminate Australia).
I think a better example is Somerset in a limited overs match in the late 1970s, when they declared their innings after an over and lost, since the run rate formula used for such an outcome ensured they qualified. Still a little different to the badminton since their actions were again to improve their chances of qualification rather than manipulate the draw having already qualified, but maybe a more obvious tactic of deliberately losing. Link for an interesting story: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/405598.html
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Somerset
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Actually perhaps the 99 World Cup example is the closest I can think of to the badminton players. Rationale behind Australia's decision to slowly chase the WI total was to increase their chances of taking points against WI into the Super 6s, so rather similar in terms of manipulating round robin results to gain more favourable draws later in the tournament. Would've been a tremendously controversial call if Australia had suffered any penalty for that though.
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Social talking nonsense as per. Will elaborate in a bit.
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Somerset
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Hilarious that after having the official threaten to disqualify them if they refused to play properly, they engaged in one normal service...before continuing to try and throw the match. Shameful stuff.
sledger
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Yeah, despicable really. Hadn't actually seen it properly until the link Daemon posted, it's even more pathetic than I imagined it to be.
Suspect there's some truth in what Beevs said above though (i.e. they probably had pressure put on them from above to throw the match).
Suspect there's some truth in what Beevs said above though (i.e. they probably had pressure put on them from above to throw the match).
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wellAlbidarned
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Congratulations, your mind is at about the same level as mine.
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wonderful.
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Australia doing so badly is the highlight of the Olympics for me. I know we have the rivalry but thought it might be a bit more difficult to beat them in the medals table.