On March 25, 2022, the BWF officially announced for the first time that the results of the investigation of the national badminton competition four years ago, believing that the Chinese players Tan Qiang, He Jiting, Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen had negative competition behavior, violating the spirit of sportsmanship, and decided to impose a three-month ban on the four of them, and at the same time confiscate the prize money awarded by the two pairs of men's doubles groups at that time.
According to the BWF, in the 2018 China Fuzhou Open, the two pairs of men's doubles pairs of Guoyu, Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen and Tan Qiang / He Jiting will be in the quarterfinals, the two sides will fight hard for three sets, and finally Tan Qiang / He Jiting eliminated Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen 2-1 to advance, the decisive round 21-19 narrow victory, at that time the official believe that the four people had negative match behavior, although the score could not see any problems, but still was investigated.
After a four-year investigation, the BWF issued a statement confirming that Tan Qiang, He Jiting, Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen were negative in the competition, and the four Chinese players would be banned for three months and executed after two years, from January 25 to April 25, 2024, while the BWF said that this time also gave them a chance to be exempted from punishment if the four did not violate the rules within two years.
Finally, the BWF stressed that if the national badminton can not accept this result, it has the right to appeal, and the Chinese Badminton Association responded at the first time, made an important decision, punished the four athletes who violated the rules internally, expressed their acceptance of this result, obeyed the official ruling results, and will strengthen the education and management of athletes in the future, avoid similar situations from happening again, and cherish the opportunity to compete.
Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen is the world champion and Olympic runner-up, Li Junhui has retired, so the ban penalty is not very big for him, but Liu Yuchen is still playing, recently he partnered Ou Xuanyi to participate in the competition, achieved some results, Tan Qiang / He Jiting is the number one men's doubles in Guoyu now, last year's World Championships runner-up, when he lost to the Japanese combination of Hogi Zhuo lang / Yugo Kobayashi in the final.
As far as the current situation is concerned, the Chinese Badminton Association has taken the initiative to give up the opportunity to appeal, while increasing internal penalties, which is undoubtedly a matter of sitting on a negative game, but if it is really a negative game, it is useless to guarantee teammates to advance to the final four, and it makes no sense to persist until the last 2 points of the decider, and it is better to play two games, of course, now that Guo Yu has fully accepted this result, everything has become a fixed number.
Guo Yu is preparing for the Tang You Cup that starts in May, at this critical stage, there is an unexpected situation, which is a big blow to morale, especially Tan Qiang, He Jiting, Liu Yuchen, I hope they can adjust their mentality and strive to achieve the desired results in the next game.