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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 ...
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).
Channel 5 airs a wide variety of programming that covers various genres and themes, with programmes about farming, trains and royalty being popular.. The channel is notable for its travel and holiday shows, whether presented by comedians such as Susan Calman [1] [2] and Alexander Armstrong [3] or whether they are programmes in a fly-on-the-wall reality format like Allo Allo!
5 Live Sport has live Premier League commentaries on Saturdays at 3 pm and 5:30 pm, as well as on Sundays at 2 pm and 4:30 pm. They also have live commentaries from the Champions League and FA Cup. The programme also has extensive coverage of the England national team. Mark Chapman is the main presenter.
The channel's launch on 30 March 1997 (Easter Sunday) at 6 p.m. After a brief voice over by continuity presenter David Vickery, the first broadcast was the Spice Girls singing a cover version of Manfred Mann's hit "5-4-3-2-1" as "1-2-3-4-5", [15] [16] for which they were reportedly paid around £500,000. [17]
Badminton people (2 C) R. Badminton records and statistics (1 C, 3 P) S. Seasons in badminton (3 C) T. Badminton tournaments (12 C, 4 P) V. Badminton venues (4 C, 163 ...
Mark Chapman – BBC Radio 5 Live 2003–present, Channel 5 2007–2009, ESPN UK 2009–2013, BBC Sport 2009–present, Sky Sports 2022–present; Jack Charlton – ITV Sport 1973–1982, 1992–1996, Channel 5 1999–2001; Adrian Chiles – BBC Radio 5 Live 2001–2006, BBC Sport 2004–2010, ITV Sport 2010–2014
Crossminton, previously known as Speed Badminton, is a racket game that combines elements from different sports like badminton, squash and tennis. It is played without any net and has no prescribed playground, so it can be executed on tennis courts, streets, beaches, fields or gyms.