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 – 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 (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, 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 ...

Estonia's women's badminton team is just one win away from topping its group and reaching the BWF European team championships ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...