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Badminton's Bad Girl Defends Trying to Lose Olympic Match

A Chinese badminton star booted from the Olympics for purposely trying to lose has quit the sport, but not before defiantly defending her actions and calling her disqualification from the games "unforgivable." Many Chinese are now rallying around the disgraced Olympians. "This is my last competition. Goodbye Badminton World Federation, goodbye my beloved badminton," Yu Yang wrote on her microblog Wednesday after being disqualified from the games. Eight badminton players were kicked out of the...Full Story
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