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Comment by balentio | Hacker News Reader

Have a re-match in not China between the two without any other crap if for no other reason than to heal the spiritual damage done by the Chinese Olympic mafia.

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Can't happen. The winner would have to go into exile from China to participate, and both are about double the age now and no longer play competitively (the thrown match was 22 years ago).

The outcome may have been the same from the thrown match but the winner would have been tired.

It’s a decent enough trick and I’m a bit surprised that a county would compete against itself in the semifinals.

> I’m a bit surprised that a country would compete against itself in the semifinals

What does that mean?

TFA:

> In an exclusive interview with TV 2 SPORT, the Chinese champion tells the whole story for the first time about what exactly happened 22 years ago at the Sydney Olympics, when she was instructed to take a dive in the semi-final against her compatriot, Gong Zhichao.

I think the question was - what alternative was there to 2 Chinese players competing in the semi-finals, when they were the 2 that had advanced to that semi-finals match? They couldn't just say "we refuse to compete."

Per the bracket diagram in the article, out of the four players in the semi-finals, three were Chinese. So there was no way to avoid a match between two Chinese contenders. Unfortunately there isn't much that can be done in terms of tournament structure to avoid it when one nation's team is consistently strong.

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