This badminton scandal has to be the biggest upset in Olympic history

Olympic officials demanded a deeper investigation into the badminton fixing scandal Thursday as China's coach took the blame for a match being thrown at the London Games and a player appeared to quit the tarnished sport.

Defending Olympic champion Yu Yang of China went further by apparently announcing her retirement from badminton.  "This is my last game," read a posting on a verified account for Yu on the Tencent microblogging service. "Farewell Badminton World Federation. Farewell my dear badminton."

"I think firstly we should apologize to the Chinese audience, because we did not demonstrate the Olympic spirit. ... We did not give the audience a game that fully demonstrated our skills," she said. "And it really resulted in a lot of negative influence."..."We didn't take each competition seriously and follow the Olympic spirit of 'higher, faster and stronger' as professional athletes," Li added on Chinese television....

"We did not fully understand the significance of it," Li said. "As the head coach, I think I should, since the Badminton World Federation has already made the decision, apologize to the Chinese fans and audience, because, in fact, we didn't fully demonstrate the fighting spirit of the Chinese badminton team."

How out of control has this badminton scandal become?  Four teams dismissed, the internet is blowing up, the best player in the world just quit her "dear badminton" - and I'm loving every minute of it.  And now after reading this article my sympathies are somehow swinging BACK towards China.  Frankly, I don't know what to make of this article...is China just mocking everyone with their talk of the "Olympic spirit" and "taking each competition seriously"?  I thought we had reached a point where everyone had just accepted that China cheats in every event, and the real fun was trying to catch them at it?  I didn't even think they were aware of the "Olympic spirit"...or they thought "higher, faster, stronger" literally meant they had permission to make Chinese Ivan Dragos in a factory in Beijing.

The next Chinese Olympic model will have a "cheat code" option added

But with the quotes from this article...to quote Mac from "Its Always Sunny"...are we being patronized?  I feel like I'm being patronized.  My impression is that China has been mass producing teenage cyborgs to take over the Summer Games, and they've been pretty damn successful at it.  They have completely taken the title from the Russians as America's #1 enemy in international sporting competitions, and for me anyways the presence of a clearly identifiable villain has made the Olympics extremely relevant again.

In regard to the actual scandal, I think the real uproar is not that China tanked...its that they did such a shitty job at it.  I cannot think of a more pathetic display of cheating.  How could the usually quick-witted Chinese not come up with a more creative scenario?  Was their a glitch in their AI programming that could not compute "throw this match"?  Did they need to be punched in the back of the neck like in "Terminator: Salvation" to reset the microchip embedded beneath the skin?

I feel like heads are going to roll (literally, they will be chopped off) when the badminton team returns to China...Yu Yang may have been SAYING farewell to her dear badminton, but if you read between the lines I'm pretty sure she meant "I'm dead, my family's dead...my dear badminton ruined my life".