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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 ...
Blazing Birds is a badminton-like action-sports video game developed by Vector 2 Games (now Silver Dollar Games) and published by Microsoft Games Studios. It was released on May 20, 2009, worldwide for the Xbox 360 ( Xbox Live Arcade ).
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 origin remains obscure.
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The Badminton Game is a painting of 1973 by the English painter David Inshaw. It was inspired by the gardens of Devizes and the landscape of Wiltshire . Inshaw has described how the place gave him a feeling of "mystery and wonder".
Badminton at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Venue Chandler Sports Hall Dates 30 September – 9 October ← 1978 1986 → The badminton competition at the 1982 Commonwealth Games took place in Brisbane, Australia from 30 September until 9 October 1982. Medallists Category Gold Silver Score Bronze Men's singles Syed Modi Nick Yates 7-15, 15–6, 15–5 Razif Sidek Women's singles Helen Troke Sally ...
Badminton competitions for the South Asian Games are being held since its inception at the 2004 South Asian Games, which was the 9th edition of South Asian Games. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Venues
The idea of establishing a badminton tournament for the small states of Europe began in 2017 during the Badminton Europe Congress in Prague. Malta, Cyprus, and Monaco envisioned a team badminton event uniting small European states, as badminton is not part of the Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE).