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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 origin remains obscure.
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.
Badminton was added to the Commonwealth Games program in 1966, as an optional sport. The sport was chosen to replace lawn bowls, due the lack of facilities at Jamaica. Having this status until the 1994 edition, when it became a mandatory sport.
This is a list of drinking games. Drinking games involve the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Evidence of the existence of drinking games dates back to antiquity. They have been banned at some institutions, particularly colleges and universities. [1
100PLUS is the only drink endorsed by the National Sports Council of Malaysia. [8] Its brand ambassador is Lee Chong Wei , a Malaysian Olympic silver medallist in badminton. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Other athletes sponsored by 100PLUS include Malaysian sprinter Khairul Hafiz Jantan [ 11 ] and Singaporean marathoner Mok Ying Ren .
The badminton program included men's and women's singles competitions; men's, women's and mixed doubles competitions. [ 2 ] This was the first time Russian and Belarusian badminton players have competed internationally since the ban of the two nations in 2022.
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The potential benefits of sports drinks depends upon other factors including the quantity of the beverage ingested, the time it takes for the drink to be emptied from ones body, absorption time, and the carbohydrate type, [7] although the same source states that "there is little evidence that any one sports drink is superior to any of the other ...