If you're Indian,
did you know what "throwing one's game" meant? I just read about it
in The Hindu that eight badminton players have been disqualified in
the Olympics for "throwing their game".
I read on just to
understand what it meant. It meant some players, who were already sure to move
on to the next stage in the contest (even if they lost that particular match
that they were playing), deliberately lost the game by committing deliberate
fouls (of course coz it didn't stop them from moving on anyway).
I quote "Chairman of the
London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) Sebastian
Coe attacked the performances. Branding the behaviour “depressing” and
“unacceptable,” he said, “Who wants to sit through something like that?”
We in India are
familiar with something else and kinda similar; Matchfixing. Ha ha ha ha! I'm
sure now you all understand what I mean. I reckon that matchfixing is worse
because there you don’t even ensure that you’re qualified for the bigger game.
You screw up things in the field, sometimes in the finals of the biggest
events, let your team/nation down and laugh your way to the bank
unconscionably.
Ah! we even have a
fun movie on this. Watch the Hindi movie "99" starring Kunal Khemu, Boman
Irani, Soha Ali Khan and Cyrus Broacha
Our cricket crazy
nation is famous bookies and and unending supply of people that bet on them.
Last year I was nothing short of shocked to learn how common and rampant
betting is in cricket. Bookies launder money and who are the investors; the
common man. Our young Indian blood working in MNCs and corporate sector invest relatively
small sums like Rs 10K, 20K, “invest” in lakhs, the money goes to the bookies,
they go to the players with their crores and VOILA! Match fixed. The winners
distribute their profits, the losers lose their bucks.
May God take care of
Anna Hazare and keep him safe.
