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Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
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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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Purcell designed a low-cut canvas badminton shoe for B.F. Goodrich's PF Flyers brand in 1935. The shoe provided better support on badminton courts because of a steel shank in its heel. [ 1 ] For most of the twentieth century, Jack Purcell's sneaker was required wear on all grass and clay tennis courts in the United States and, for a time, on ...
The 1949 Thomas Cup was the inaugural tournament of Thomas Cup, the most important men's badminton team competition in the world.. The tournament was originally planned for 1941–1942 (badminton seasons in the northern hemisphere traditionally ran from the autumn of one calendar year to the spring of the next), but was delayed when World War II exploded across the continents.
His idea was well received at the general meeting of the International Badminton Federation (now Badminton World Federation) in 1939. [2] [3] In the same year, Sir George presented the Thomas Cup, officially known as The International Badminton Championship Challenge Cup, produced by Atkin Bros of London at the cost of US$40,000. The Cup stands ...
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 ...