Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles that conserving resources in early matches is a common practice in every competitive sport. The competition format for Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics was changed to discourage match fixing. Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles The badminton women's doubles tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place from 28 July to 4 August at Wembley Arena. The draw for the tournament was made on 23 July 2012. Thirty-two players from 14 nations competed in the event. The competition became embroiled in controversy during the group stage when eight players (two pairs from South Korea
Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles am not happy." On 1 August 2012, following the review, all eight players were ejected from the tournament by the Badminton World Federation, after being found guilty of "not using best efforts" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport". The quarter-finals then continued with the disqualified teams replaced by the other teams from their groups. The decision was highly debated; some argued that while the teams have not been performing their best effort to win the game at hand, they had been in fact doing their best to win the "tournament", and