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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).
Security at the Paris Olympics ejected a fan brandishing a green banner that read “Go Taiwan” at a badminton match, sparking anger from the island’s authorities.
The original scoring system in badminton dates back to as early as 1873. [1] A match or rubber is decided by the best of three games. Each game is played to 15 points in the case of men's singles and any doubles games. In the case of ladies' singles, a game is played to 11 points.
This list includes events in which a spectator at a sporting event was engaged in such a confrontation with an athlete, coach or game official, either through the spectator's intrusion upon the field of play, or (as a result of such an event) a participant entering the spectator seating area.
In Brazil, the practice of games without public access is known as "closed gates" (in Portuguese, portões fechados), even referred as such in the Brazilian Football Confederation's rulebook. [4] Once it was applied to a whole tournament: two rounds of the Campeonato Catarinense second division in 2014 were behind closed doors because the ...
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 ...
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.
On 2 August, security at a badminton match involving the Taiwanese Olympic badminton team forcibly removed a man who displayed a banner that read "Taiwan go for it." Taiwan competes at the Olympics as Chinese Taipei, and any display of Taiwan is forbidden. The Taiwanese government protested the spectator's removal.