Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Two people playing jianzi A traditional jianzi A group playing jianzi in Beijing's Temple of Heaven park. Jianzi (Chinese: 毽子; pinyin: jiànzi), [Note 1] is a traditional Chinese sport in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their bodies apart from the hands, unlike in similar games such as peteca and indiaca.
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).
Victor Rackets Industrial Corporation (stylized as VICTOR) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of sporting equipment with products ranging from badminton and squash rackets, sportswear, shoes, shuttlecocks, and other equipment for the sport. [2] Its products are among the ones approved by Badminton World Federation for international tournaments. [3]
Badminton is popular in China thanks to its relative simplicity in recreational use and inexpensive equipment. [citation needed] Many Chinese badminton players have gained international success and fame, especially the many Gold medalists at the BWF World Championships. It is a popular recreational, and professional sport, with amateur leagues ...
For example, Yonex was dissatisfied that badminton player Liao Kuan-hao used his personal sponsor racquet and as a result Yonex asked the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association to fine Liao and force him to be suspended for six months. [12] In August 2016, the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association held a board meeting to resolve the situation.
Chinese badminton player Huang Yaqiong received a proposal from teammate Liu Yuchen after winning mixed doubles gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
World Badminton Federation Rules say the shuttle should reach the far doubles service line plus or minus half the width of the tram. According to manufacturers proper shuttles will generally travel from the back line of the court to just short of the long doubles service line on the opposite side of the net, with a full underhand hit from an ...
A 17-year-old Chinese badminton player died after he collapsed during a tournament in Indonesia, sparking outcry over what some on social media lambasted as a delayed medical response.