Enjoying the Wall Street Journal video of the badminton match-throwing controversy


Posted August 2, 2012 by Alan Herzberger Comment on this article Leave a comment

I haven’t seen a lot of this year’s Summer Olympics. It’s just been a busy week. Maybe next week I’ll watch a lot of the track and field events — and I’ll definitely make the Team U.S.A. basketball games appointment DVR’ing next week.

But I was really intrigued by the Badminton scandal that I heard about on the radio yesterday and read more about on NewsOK.

Fascinating.

It opens up quite a debate about tanking games — or parts of games — in other sports, something I read about more this morning on Oklahoman.com.

It just an interesting turn of events. But even though I was intrigued, I never saw the video highlights of what must have been a terrible display of trying to purposely  lose. I hadn’t tried all that hard to find the video, but I know that my normal sports highlights viewing late at night hadn’t quenched that thirst for the video evidence.

So when I glanced at the Wall Street Journal today (photo on the right) and saw that it had a front-page story about the subject, I took notice. Then I saw that it was promoting a video re-creation with the cutline. That’s when I found the highlights I had been looking for.

 

I’m sharing because it made me laugh. I invite you to read more about the Olympics on our NewsOK Olympics coverage page.





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Alan Herzberger is the Digital Managing Editor for NewsOK.com and The Oklahoman. He focuses on content within OPUBCO Communications Group’s...


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