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  2. Badminton - Wikipedia

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    Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, [a] but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the expatriate officers of British India as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) [4] Its exact

  3. Battledore and shuttlecock - Wikipedia

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    Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...

  4. Badminton at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Olympic badminton consists of a group stage and single-elimination tournament. Each match is played to the best of three games. Games are up to 21 points. Rally scoring is used, meaning a player does not need to be serving to score. A player must win by two points or be the first player to 30 points.

  5. Badminton at the World Games - Wikipedia

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    Badminton was introduced and only played at the 1981 World Games. The badminton events of World Games I were held on July 25–28, 1981, at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California, in the United States. These were the first World Games, an international quadrennial multi-sport event, and were hosted by the city of Santa Clara.

  6. List of Olympic medalists in badminton - Wikipedia

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    Gao Ling is the all-time leader for the most Olympic medals in badminton, with two golds, one silver, and one bronze; Fu Haifeng (two golds, one silver), Zhang Nan, Zhao Yunlei, Viktor Axelsen and Kim Dong-moon (two golds, one bronze) each, Gil Young-ah and Chen Long (one each) and Lee Chong Wei (three silvers) are second for the most medals in ...

  7. Badminton in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Badminton fails to receive substantial media attention in the United States and with that comes low wages. Participants can earn up to $15,000 for winning a championship, which is a relatively small amount of money in comparison to an average football player that has a salary of $2.7 million.

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  9. BWF World Tour - Wikipedia

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    The BWF World Tour is a Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It is a competition open to the top world ranked players in singles (men's and women's) and doubles (men's, women's and mixed). [1]