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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
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 around the top. The object is for players to bat the shuttlecock from one to the other as many times as ...
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 object resembles a hawk's lure, used from ancient times in the training of hunting birds. [citation needed] It is frequently shortened to shuttle.The "shuttle" part of the name is derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a 14th-century loom, while the "cock" part of the name is derived from the resemblance of the feathers to those on a rooster.
Permanent link; Page information; Get shortened URL; Download QR code; Print/export ... Mixed badminton (4 C, 25 P) N. National badminton teams (174 P) O.
Whether or not the sport of badminton was re-introduced from British India or was invented during the hard winter of 1863 by the children of the eighth duke in the Great Hall (where the featherweight shuttlecock would not mar the life-size portraits of horses by John Wootton, as the tradition of the house has it), [7] it was popularised at the house, hence the sport's name.
Gao Ling won a total of 4 olympic medals in badminton, with 2 being consecutive mixed doubles gold Badminton is a sport contested at the Summer Olympic Games . Badminton was first held as a demonstration sport at the 1972 Summer Olympics , and was an exhibition sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics ; the men's and women's singles and doubles have ...
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]