(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand defeated Japan's Kaho Osawa and Mai Tanabe, 17-21, 21-13, 21-15, to emerge women's doubles ...

LONDON – Eight badminton players could be disciplined for their sub-par Olympic effort after embarrassing scenes Tuesday saw them appear to deliberately throw their matches. (AP) Angry fans at Wembley ...

LONDON — Eight players from China, South Korea and Indonesia were disqualified from the Olympic badminton competition on Wednesday after a pathetic display of tanking matches in order to improve their ...

We've seen sporting events before where we believe a team is deliberately trying to lose because it's playing so horribly. However, badminton has taken it to a whole new level in these Olympics. In a ...

Indian para badminton players have performed admirably in the ongoing Paris Paralympics 2024, with several para-shuttlers such as Nitesh Kumar and Thulasimathi Murugesan qualifying for the semi-final ...

Viktor Axelsen was unstoppable in the men’s singles tournament, winning every match he played without losing a single game. His path to the top of the podium ran through Chen Long, but he breezed past ...

BREAKING NEWS Update at 8:10 a.m. ET, Aug. 1: "Eight players from four teams in the women's doubles competition have been thrown out" of the London Olympics for allegedly deliberately trying to lose ...