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Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock ... The full width of the court is 6.1 metres (20 feet), and in singles this width is reduced ...
It is controlled by the Brazil Badminton Confederation (CBBd; Confederação Brasileira de Badminton), the governing body for badminton in Brazil. Brazil is one of South America's most active badminton nations. The team is a member of Badminton Pan America and the South American Badminton Confederation. The team was formed in the early 1980s.
It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member nations: Canada, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. In 1981, the IBF merged with the World Badminton Federation , and on 24 September 2006, at the Extraordinary General Meeting in Madrid , the name of the ...
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Pelé celebrating the victory of Brazil in the FIFA World Cup.. Football is the most popular sport in Brazil. The Brazil national football team, governed by the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol, has won the FIFA World Cup a record 5 times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, and 2002, [1] and is the only team to succeed in qualifying for every FIFA World Cup competition ever held.
The 1972 Summer Olympics saw the inaugural staging of badminton, as a demonstration sport.Two decades later, after a successful exhibition at the 1988 games, the sport was officially introduced to the Olympics in 1989, and debuted in competition at the 1992 Games where 4 events were held, with singles and doubles events for both men and women.
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