Indonesian “fans” yet again showing how classless they are on Labar/Corbel’s social media accounts. They don’t seem to understand or want to understand the situation, just desperate to abuse the pair for something that is entirely BWF’s doing.
No. The Popov’s in this situation are not at fault. According to the correct points list, they were the ones that qualified for Paris over Labar/Corvee. The issue here is that BWF corrected the points after the conclusion of the qualification. This meant that no one was able to improve their position when if they had all the facts available, they could’ve entered more events to try and get more points. Had they changed it half way through or even with three months to go, I doubt CAS would’ve ruled in their favour. This is a pretty strong ruling and CAS would not have sided with players over a federation without a compelling reason to do so. Throwing out another pair who have qualified on merit just to add space for this pair would be ignorant or “not fair” as Indonesian’s seem to constantly put it.
yeh mainly because bwf's statements are to say the least very scarce on the matter and basically you have to deduct the real reasons behind the approval for labar/corvee entry. When indonesians feel that fikri/maulana, narrowly missing 8th ranking spot, deserve to be at the olympics much more.
Men's Doubles Group A Liang Wei Kang/Wang Chang Ben Lane /Sean Vendy DONG Adam/Nyl Yakura Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik Group B Kang Ming Hyuk/Seo Seung Jae Christo Popov/Tomo Junior Popov Supak Jomkoh/Kittirupong Kedren Ondtej Kaal/Adam Mendrek Group C Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty Lucas Corvee/Ronan Labar Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto Mark Lamfuss/Marvin Seidel Group D Kim Astrupp/Anders Skarrup Rasmussen Liu Yu Chen/Ou xuan yi Lee Yang /Wang chilin Takuro Hoki/Yugo Kobayashi Vinson Chu/Joshua Yuan
Group D- Group of Death. It’s sad considering the quality of players which have to bow out early thanks to “random draw”. As the International Authorities say, Olympics is to give everyone a Fair Chance to prosper. I believe this is Negative Discrimination going on here. What’s the use of getting 2nd seed if I am not able to have a better draw ? Considering the scenario, they should have given 4th seed in table of 5 pairs. What a draw, just compare Group D and Group B.
Group A- Chinese WR1, WR5 ,WR 18, WR32 Group B- Koreans WR4, WR 24, WR39, WR48 Group C- Indians WR3, Indonesia WR 6, WR31, WR46 Group D (Death): Danish WR2, WR7, WR9, WR11, WR47 Pathetic draw.
3 seeded pairs got easy group and should progress except Astrup/Ramussen who have the defending champion and 2 former World Champion? They must be fuming.
I actually think that although they might not see it this way, the Danish will benefit from having to be all out from the start as opposed to building into it. It suits them better than other pairs.
Yup, it they are a diesel locomotive. They will have to play 3 tough games where as the other 3 seeded pairs only play 1 tough game and can take it easy on the other 2.
Mathias Christiansen withdraw from Mixed Competition. http://www.badmintoneurope.com/cms/default.aspx?clubid=4685&cmsid=239&pageid=5381&m=8779751
I agree with you on almost all points. However, the situation at the European Championships was a little bit different to what you describe. According to the incorrect point calculation from a tournament over a year (!!) ago, the Popovs should have progressed two rounds at the European Championships than Labar and Corvée. However, according to the correct point calculation, one round was enough. In the first round, Labar and Corvée suffered a surprise defeat and the Popovs won their first round match very easily but were then also surprisingly eliminated in the second round. If they had won this round as well, they would have qualified for the Olympics according to both the incorrect and the correct calculation and we would not have had this unprofessional farce. BTW - Yes, it was a very serious mistake by BWF, but isn't it also the job of the member associations (or even the players?) to check that the ranking tables are correct?
What you say is correct, if the Popov's won two rounds then this whole thing would be unnecessary. With this being said, it definitely is not the responsibility of the players or federation to make sure that the points are correct when this is a professional sport overseen by a governing body. I think the real issue here is that the points that were in question related to a team event which means you get a % of your total points from the previous 12 month period. I would argue that this system of awarding points (and especially them counting towards Olympic/World qualification) should be reviewed, as these points are not always fairly awarded. An example: Not all teams qualify for these events OR not all players who are aiming to qualify for an event are picked for team stuff. Therefore those that do qualify receive an advantage over others which doesn't seem quite like a level playing field. A topic for a different thread perhaps.
Mathias Christiansen is out of the Olympics mixed doubles event。 https://badminton.dk/2024/07/17/mathias-christiansen-traekker-sig-fra-ol/
this will never change as long as bwf continues to give the federations the ownership of the athletes individual competition rights.
