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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 ...
Two people playing jianzi A traditional jianzi A group playing jianzi in Beijing's Temple of Heaven park. Jianzi (Chinese: 毽子; pinyin: jiànzi), [Note 1] is a traditional Chinese sport in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their bodies apart from the hands, unlike in similar games such as peteca and indiaca.
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).
Copenhagen and Macau submitted bids for this of championships. [2] Both cities also bid for the 2013 edition, which was later won by Guangzhou. On 9 December 2011, Badminton World Federation decided to award the championships to Copenhagen during a meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand.
World Badminton Federation Rules say the shuttle should reach the far doubles service line plus or minus half the width of the tram. According to manufacturers proper shuttles will generally travel from the back line of the court to just short of the long doubles service line on the opposite side of the net, with a full underhand hit from an ...
Duolingo’s Duo the Owl, an internet-famous big green bird, was killed by a Cybertruck in an apparent marketing stunt orchestrated by the language-learning app this week.
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. ... Pages in category ...
Mayor Karen Bass, in a statement, said she looks forward to "reviewing the final ordinance and continuing our work to keep all Angelenos safe." "Los Angeles will always stand together, especially ...