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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 ...
The object resembles a hawk's lure, used from ancient times in the training of hunting birds. [citation needed] It is frequently shortened to shuttle.The "shuttle" part of the name is derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a 14th-century loom, while the "cock" part of the name is derived from the resemblance of the feathers to those on a rooster.
For para-badminton events: para-1 = Para Level 1; para-2 = Para Level 2; para-3 = Para Level 3; 2007–2017 level of tournament: 2F = Super Series Finals; 2A = Super Series Premier; 2B = Super Series; 3A = Grand Prix Gold; 3B = Grand Prix; 1983–2006 level of tournament: GF = World Grand Prix Finals; 1S = World Grand Prix 1 Star; 2S = World ...
The name derives from the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton House in Gloucestershire, [5] but why or when remains unclear. [citation needed] As early as 1860, a London toy dealer named Isaac Spratt published a booklet entitled Badminton Battledore – A New Game, but no copy is known to have survived. [6]
Mar Bella hosted the badminton events for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Wembley Arena hosted the badminton events for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. For the Summer Olympics, 13 venues have been or will be used in badminton.
The 2023 BWF World Championships (officially known as the TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2023 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place from 21 to 27 August 2023 in Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark. [1] Copenhagen hosted the BWF World Championships for the fifth time.
Badminton Canada mistakenly entered three time defending Pan American Championships gold medalists Adrian Liu and Derrick Ng in overlapping events, which is a World Badminton Federation rule violation. Badminton Canada launched an appeal, however it was ultimately unsuccessful. Therefore, both athletes had to be withdrawn from the games. [7]
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