Badminton at London 2012: ‘An Olympian effort of awfulness’
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NBC Olympics
Mary Carillo looks back on one of the most peculiar events in Olympic history, where a flawed women’s badminton tournament at the 2012 London Olympics led players to develop a strategy in which they tried to lose.