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 ...

(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 (AP) — Olympic officials demanded a deeper investigation into the badminton fixing scandal Thursday as China’s coach took the blame for a match being thrown at the London Games and a player ...

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 ...

London, England – Disciplinary cases have been opened against four women's badminton doubles teams under accusations they threw matches the day before to improve their chances in the Olympic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In what has to be the biggest controversy in the 2012 Summer Olympics so far, the World Badminton Federation (yes, it’s real) “charged eight female players with misconduct” because of their actions ...