(AP) LONDON - Four badminton teams were kicked out of the women's doubles at the London Games on Wednesday for trying to lose on purpose, conduct that a top IOC executive said strikes at the heart of ...

To win an Olympic badminton match, a player or team must win two games. When the score of a game reaches 29-29, the next ...

LONDON — The temptation, when you wander past the core sports of swimming, gymnastics and track, when you stumble into the periphery, is to stifle laughter when you see just how silly — it’s really ...

Badminton officials at the 2012 Olympic Games in London have thrown out eight players across four teams from the games in badminton in light of a ruling that the players intentionally lost their ...

A recent proposal by the World Badminton Federation could see the nature of the sport shift dramatically, with each ...

LONDON – Eight female badminton players, including the world champions from China, face a disciplinary hearing Wednesday after being accused of trying to throw matches at the Olympics a day earlier to ...

The women's doubles badminton semifinals took place on Friday with two Chinese duos earning a spot in the gold medal match to take place on Saturday. In the second match of the day, Chen Qingchen and ...

Badminton generally isn't one of the most talked about sports on the Olympic program, but thanks to a match-fixing scandal, that has certainly changed. Punishments have been levied, but the most ...

On December 23, 2025, in Henan, China, @Xiǎomiányáng shared a funny badminton video capturing a light mishap during doubles ...

IFTIKHAR: I mean, the biggest highlight, I guess, and the biggest lowlight probably was this whole badminton controversy with, you know, eight players from South Korea, China and Indonesia that were ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Former top-10 player Joachim Persson of Denmark was banned for 18 months by the Badminton World Federation on Thursday in regard to match-fixing. Persson was found guilty by ...