{"id":19816,"date":"2019-09-14T07:12:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T07:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-badminton-players-apologise\/"},"modified":"2019-09-14T07:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T07:12:38","slug":"chinese-badminton-players-apologise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/chinese-badminton-players-apologise\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese badminton players apologise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">  \t<strong><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Match Fixing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \tThe players were one of four doubles teams who appeared to play badly on purpose to secure a better position in the next round of their doubles tournament.<\/p>\n<p>  \tTeam coach, Li Yongbo also apologised, saying: &quot;we didn&#39;t fully demonstrate the fighting spirit of the Chinese badminton team.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">  \t<strong>Li Yongbo: head coach of&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>China&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>badminton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \tIn a message posted on a Chinese microblogging site, one of the players, Yu Yang, announced her intention to leave the sport altogether.<\/p>\n<p>  \tHer team mate Wang Xiaoli wants to prove herself by continuing to play.<\/p>\n<p>  \tTwo teams from South Korea and one from Indonesia were also disqualified from the competition.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe players have been allowed to stay at the Games &#8211; a step lighter than expulsion, the penalty for positive drug tests.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-874292423\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match Fixing   \tThe players were one of four doubles teams who appeared to play badly on purpose to secure a better position in the next round of their doubles tournament.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-city-guide"],"views":168,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}