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Lin Dan (Chinese: 林丹; born 14 October 1983) [1] is a Chinese badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, five-time World champion, two-time World Cup champion, two-time Asian games gold medalist, four-time Asian Champion, as well as a six-time All England champion.
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).
William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1]
Ong excelled in badminton during his school days and held the Sarawak singles and doubles titles from 1938 to 1941. [7] [9] He moved to Singapore after World War II, where he played for Devonshire and Marigold Badminton Party, [10] both well-established rivals to Mayflower Badminton Party, [11] which produced Wong Peng Soon and a number of other prominent badminton players of that era.
"Copper Kettle" (also known as "Get you a Copper Kettle", "In the pale moonlight") is a song composed by Albert Frank Beddoe and made popular by Joan Baez. Pete Seeger 's account dates the song to 1946, mentioning its probable folk origin, [ 1 ] while in a 1962 Time readers column A. F. Beddoe says [ 2 ] that the song was written by him in 1953 ...
Trump promoted the “God Bless the USA” bible based on the song earlier this year, much to Greenwood’s delight. “I love that he showed his faith to the country – that was fantastic ...
The Sidek family is a Malaysian family with a significant history within professional badminton. [1] [2] The patriarch of the family was an avid badminton fan, Sidek Abdullah Kamar (1936–2005), who himself was a former player turned senior coach. [3] He started to train his sons from an early age at their house in Banting.
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 ...