Olympics: These moments took gold for weird, strange and bad

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China's Yu Yang was one of eight players badminton players expelled from the Games for trying to lose on purpose in round-robin play to assure a more favorable seeding in the knockout round.

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Lady-RETTA “Master Baker” Since: Jul 08 2,640 Hidden-like GINSENG.	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #1 Aug 12, 2012 OXYGEN Sweet http://www.youtube.com/watch... ' Duh..
Go Blue Miami, FL	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #2 Aug 12, 2012 NBC today, decided to show, in it's entirety, the mens volleyball gold medal game, between Russia and Brazil.....BUT, YESTERDAY...they waited until 11:30 PM, to show the girl's gold medal game, between Brazil and USA, and then just showed a small edited portion.....WHY?...was it because USA won the first set handily, then Brazil in a miraculous comeback, won the match, on three straight sets....I thought the Olympics was about sportsmanship and performance, not being a homer.....You still have to feel bad for all those kids out there, that never got a chance to see any of it.....SHAME ON NBC AND THEIR CORPORATE GREED.....
Anonymous Ottawa, Canada	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #3 Aug 14, 2012 Go Blue wrote: NBC today, decided to show, in it's entirety, the mens volleyball gold medal game, between Russia and Brazil.....BUT, YESTERDAY...they waited until 11:30 PM, to show the girl's gold medal game, between Brazil and USA, and then just showed a small edited portion.....WHY?...was it because USA won the first set handily, then Brazil in a miraculous comeback, won the match, on three straight sets....I thought the Olympics was about sportsmanship and performance, not being a homer.....You still have to feel bad for all those kids out there, that never got a chance to see any of it.....SHAME ON NBC AND THEIR CORPORATE GREED..... Absolutely agree 100% and they also had the worst commentators ever covering the various sports for NBC. Absolutely brutal!!!!!!!!!!
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