My days of not respecting the IOC are certainly coming to a middle. I suppose next we should disqualify swimmers who didn't go as fast as they possibly could in the qualifier rounds, in order to save energy for the finals?
All four of these badminton teams had already qualified for the next round with only the seeding still to be determined.
In swimming qualifiers, only the top 8 swimmers across all heats advance to the finals. There is absolutely no guarantee that an individual swimmer in a heat will qualify for the next round if he or she simply swims slowly to conserve energy.