(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...