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What would it look like if every­one played to lose? First, a group of 80’s Cuban mis­fits found rock-and-roll and cre­at­ed a rev­o­lu­tion with­in a rev­o­lu­tion, going into exile with­out ever leav­ing home. In a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Radio Ambu­lante, reporter Luis Trelles bring us the sto­ry of punk rock’s arrival in Cuba and a small band of out­siders who sen­tenced them­selves to death and set them­selves free.

Then, no mat­ter what sport you play, the object of the game is to win. And that’s hard enough to do. But we found a match where four top ath­letes had to do the oppo­site in one of the most high pro­file match­es of their careers. Thanks to a quirk in the tour­na­ment rules, their best shot at win­ning was … to lose. We scru­ti­nize the most para­dox­i­cal and upside down bad­minton match of all time, a match that dumb­found­ed spec­ta­tors, offi­cials, and even the play­ers them­selves. And it got us to won­der­ing … what would sports look like if every­one played to lose?