south korea's strategy to lose in their thomas cup campaign against england and malaysia just to avoid china in the semifinal is no surprise. the koreans are "good" at this. to win tournaments they are willing to display all sorts of unsporting behaviour. locally we call this "main tahi".
i remember in the olympic games they hosted a couple of years ago, koreans judges declared their boxer the winner even though the whole world saw that the boxer was clearly a human punching bag. in international badminton tournaments hosted by korea, many players like taufik hidayat and lin dan to name a few, have fallen victim to the korean "badtitude".
everybody knows winning is paramount but the koreans must learn to win with their dignity intact.
thomas cup organisers should change the present format into a round robin where winning every match matters. it might lose the suspense and thrills but at least teams like korea will have second thoughts about throwing away games.
what say you?
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