It seems that the way the initial round robin brackets were set up, by losing you could get your team into an easier bracket later on. Thus making it easier to make it to the finals. Sounds like a bad system to me. A team loses and they are suspected of cheating. What a stupid system.
But I just found out something more amazing. I didn't know how to spell badminton. Spell checker went nuts on badmitton. But that's the way I've always said it. MITTON. Like mitten. But nooooooo. Google and the dictionary have corrected me. The game may never be the same for me again. And I may not live much longer as I start correcting people just for fun. It's badMINton you dummy!
(Origin: 1835–45; named after Badminton, the country seat of the duke of Beaufort in Gloucestershire, England)
(Badminton; a village in SW England, in South Gloucestershire unitary authority, Gloucestershire: site of Badminton House, seat of the Duke of Beaufort)
And then Claudia found an article that said the following...
The United States Olympic Committee rewards Olympic medalists with honorariums. A gold medal brings $25,000. Silver medals get you $15,000. And a bronze is worth $10,000.
Read the whole article HERE about our amateur athletes.
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Fantastic! This puts a new spin on "amateur."
I saw the sanctions on those gals who wanted to lose to get ahead. weird to me. but the gal who punched the female soccer player on the field and gave her a black eye should have had more punishment than she got. Did you see that one? unbelieveably bad sportsmanship. The badminton gals are getting more grief than the "sucker puncher"
And yes I knew that the winners got paid but I didn't realize they had to pay taxes until last night when everyone was in a tizzy about it. If you win the lottery you have to pay taxes too so I'm on the fence on this one. I could go either way.
The word "amateur" means about as much as "technical vergin."
I don't really see what the big deal is. I thought it was pretty good strategy to try to make sure they got favorable match ups in the next round. If the Olympics don't want things like this to happen, they should change the way the tournament is set up.
Teams have been doing this same thing in basketball and soccer for years.
Jay
Angel - Plus a new spelling spin on amateur. I thought it didn't look right but spell check said it was OK. It's fixed now.
Peg - I think if they're getting money they should pay taxes just like the rest of us suckers.
King - Exactly.
Jay - If there is a system, somebody will figure out how to beat it.
When we used to get bats into our house via the chimney, my father always used a badminton racket to stun them and get them out of the house ... since the racket didn't offer a solid surface they'd see and avoid. Dad called it "batminton."
I love playing badminton! Everybody in Malaysia plays it. As kids, the front gate used to be the net.
Unfortunately, its too windy to play it here in Australia, unless you pay for an indoor court somewhere.
Bilbo - That's sounds like fun.
Amanda - Now that's a lot of wind! Have American politicians been hanging out down there?
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