Sometimes, losing is the best strategy for winning. And ethics be damned. Radiolab, a podcast I recommend, has happily remediated me on the matter of the Chinese-Korean badminton match in the 2012 OIympic Games in London, which both teams tried very hard, shamefully hard, to lose. Here’s one look at the ‘competition’ in which the boos and jeers of the crowd are evident. Here’s a briefer version in which the broadcast commentators let the so-called athletes have it. The Radiolab... Read more