On March 25, the official website of the BWF released a message announcing the results of the integrity investigation of the male doubles players of the Chinese badminton team. It is reported that the BWF conducted an investigation into a Chinese civil war match in the men's doubles of the 2018 Fuzhou China Open, and found that He Jiting, Tan Qiang, Li Junhui (retired), and Liu Yuchen did not do their best in the game, suspected of negative competition, violating relevant regulations, so the BWF Independent Hearing Committee issued a 3-month ban penalty for the four people, from January 25, 2022, suspended for two years, if the same situation occurs again during the two-year period, it will be implemented immediately.
At the same time as the ban, the BWF has not yet received the prize money won by the men's doubles pair of the national feather in that year's competition. In that year's competition, the twin-tower combination of He Jiting/Tan Qiang and Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen met in the 1/4 final, and finally the two pairs fought fiercely for three sets, He Jiting/Tan Qiang won 21-15, 14-21, 21-19, 2-19, and finally reached the final, but lost to the Indonesian "minion" combination Ofi Dien / Sukamuyo, and won the runner-up. At that time, the runner-up prize was $12250, while the top 8 prize was $2187.5.
Combined with the BF's notice, it can be seen that the official investigation was based on whether the two sides did their best on the field to investigate, and found that they violated Article 3.1.2 of the Code of Conduct on Betting, Betting and Illegal Match Results issued by the BWF in 2017, and determined that they were suspected of negative matches, so they made a 3-month ban penalty decision. The BWF also reported the verdict to the Chinese Badminton Association and the athletes concerned at the first time, who had the right to appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) within 21 days of receiving the notice, but neither the badminton association nor the athletes appealed, and accepted the punishment on their behalf.
In response to this decision of the Badminton Federation, Chinese fans and netizens are somewhat unacceptable, although the two pairs of combinations are civil wars, but they played three sets, especially the decider also hit a 21-19 glue score. In addition, the situation of the game has been more than three years ago, why it has only been announced now, some people doubt the intentions and intentions of the Badminton Federation. At the same time, fans also do not understand why in response to such a situation, the Chinese Badminton Association does not fight for the athletes, at least to appeal to prove innocence, but unfortunately, within the specified time, the badminton association did not make any move, can only let the athletes bear such a crime.