London Olympics badminton scandal
Since the London Olympic Game started, we have enjoyed so many excellent moment, exciting wonders, but yesterday, the badminton scandal raised ethical issues around the world.
Is this cheating or practiced strategy?
According to the latest judgment, the athletes are ejected form Olympics for throwing matches.
It’s a shame, but why this scandal could happen in front of the world through TV live. Even though the athlete have been punished, the underlying reasons are more important to keep a fair game.
1) There is no doubt that there are leaks in rules so that some athlete can take use of it. We can judge and criticize the greed part of human being, but never test it, because the result is fixed—people will make mistake. So try our best to forbidden the potential leak is the responsibility of all the sports association.
2) For the other part, to maximize their opportunities to win medal seems more important than sportsmanship, enjoyment of the game, expectation from fans for a wonderful match. To win, there are thousands of ways, but some people choose the shameful one. Not only the punished athletes but also other athletes attended the London Olympic should rethink the purpose to be here, why they are fond of the sports.
Greater, faster, stronger is the basic and essential principle for every athletes, we can lose but we cannot shame sports.
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Since the start of the London Olympics spectators have enjoyed many exciting moments and sights but, for some, the scandal over badminton players throwing games has marred (impair the quality or appearance of; spoil) the games and raise a number of questions about sports ethics.
(Should it be considered) Cheating or strategy/tactics in practice?
While the latest ruling disqualified those players accused of throwing games in order to keep matches fair, it seems a pity that this happened for all the world to see on live TV.
1) Loopholes exist for athletes to exploit so it is perhaps only human nature to want to win ( sometimes at any cost). It is all too easy to judge such athletes for following their competitive urge but perhaps it is the responsibility of match organisations to eliminate such tempting loopholes.
2) Arguable to drive to win medals is stronger than the impulse to be a ‘good sportsman’ or put on a good show for expectant fans. While there are many ways to win, taking shortcuts or cheating seems a poor choice in the long run for the athlete individually and the games more broadly.
Perhaps this scandal can serve as a wakeup call for all athletes at the Olympics and remind them that winning at any cost should not be their motivation for participating. Losing is acceptable , cheating and bringing the games into disrepute is not.
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It is arguably human nature to look for path of least resistance so the ‘blame’ should not fall squarely on the athletes’ shoulders – some suggest that the ‘disgraced’ players ‘were simply leveraging the new rules in the competition to ensure that they performed better.’ Things are rarely so black and white :-)
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