Bulgaria Badminton Player: China Control Everything

Bulgaria’s best badminton player Petya Nedelcheva is quitting the Olympics after one victory and one defeat.

Petya Nedelcheva, the Bulgarian badminton player at the Olympic Games, have confirmed allegations of teams not trying to win the matches.

"China control everything," she said, as cited by the Telegraph. "I don't know who controlled the match to lose but if it is China again, they did it so many times last year, they didn't play against each other in 20 matches. They do what they want."

Nedelcheva's comments are supported by figures compiled by online magazine Badzine earlier this year showing that of the 99 all-Chinese matches played in major tournaments in 2011, 20 were walkovers.

Eight badminton players at the London 2012 Olympic Games have been charged with trying to throw their matches after a spectacle during which spectators booed teams for apparently deliberate errors.

The Badminton World Federation said it had charged four pairs of female Olympic doubles players with not using their best efforts to win a match. They are a Chinese team, two teams from South Korea and one team from Indonesia.

Bulgarian Petya Nedelcheva had been playing on an adjacent court at the time of the first incident.

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