Badminton at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[mpjmcevoy 363]

  On 7/14/2024 at 8:10 AM, Griff88 said:

The thing is BWF wants to have a group stage (unlike other racket sports) and they can't fix the number of groups in because of the variable number of players in singles.

 

What they can fix is the grouping conditions such as giving group of fours to lowest seeded players or making the bye positions flexible.

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the answer to that is a limited number of runners-up qualifying for a last 16. if you have a weird number of players, even better. start on the basis of 12 groups of 4, with groups adjusted to 3 for having less than 48 players. 12 group winners, 12 seeds. from there there are any number of ways to get to 16.

 

in this case : 41 = 5 groups of 4, 7 groups of three. Put top 5 seeds in groups of 4. GRoups of three, winners progress. Groups of 4 winners progress and runners up progress- the two lowesr ranked runners up play for the last, last 16 place (which mathematically can never be 1 and 2 seed)

[Prakash_k 68]

  On 7/12/2024 at 7:18 AM, Benolympique said:

France will have a second pair in men's doubles badminton following the error made by the BWF

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Isn’t shmefull ? Noc can decide one pair

[intoronto 5,886]

Second Frnech pair has been included and the men's doubles draw will be tomorrow.

[Griff88 1,971]

  On 7/14/2024 at 2:29 PM, intoronto said:

Second Frnech pair has been included and the men's doubles draw will be tomorrow.

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And not a single regulation is updated except making one group to have 5 pairs instead of 4. Bravo

Edited July 14, 2024 by Griff88

[sounak 40]

Group D is an absolute minefield in Men's Doubles. Just shows what one extra space does to the probability while drawing.

Edited July 15, 2024 by sounak

[Albrain 91]

  On 7/15/2024 at 8:27 AM, sounak said:

Group D is an absolute minefield in Men's Doubles. Just shows what one extra space does to the probability while drawing.

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And no French men's double in group D

[erw 71]

Group D in men's doubles have 4 teams that could be top 8.  Other 12 teams would be quite happy.

 

[Vic Liu 1,687]

BWF is bullshit

[Morten Jensen 18]

Mixed double: Denmark is out!

https://www.dr.dk/sporten/badminton/dansk-badmintonspiller-traekker-sig-fra-ol-efter-brud-paa-antidopring-regler 

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 7/17/2024 at 10:16 AM, Morten Jensen said:

Mixed double: Denmark is out!

https://www.dr.dk/sporten/badminton/dansk-badmintonspiller-traekker-sig-fra-ol-efter-brud-paa-antidopring-regler 

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Due to a doping offense, to be clear...

 

I just can't....three missed tests, how the fuck do you do that if you're a genuine professional? You know you're on edge after two missed tests, how do you not check your whereabouts and if necessary update them every single day? I'd do it 5 times a day and wouldn't stop being anxious until at least one missed test is more than 12 months ago again....

 

Who gets their spot?

 

Edit: just read the rest of the article, nobody will replace them because the draw is already made. That's a shitty rule, so if you're one spot out, even someone withdrawing (for whatever reason) way more than a week before it actually starts doesn't get you in, what happened to the lucky loser kind of thing we see in tennis tournaments  

Edited July 17, 2024 by heywoodu