Badminton
The invention of Badminton originates back to at least two thousand years ago, where is was a combination of the games battledore and shuttlecock played in ancient Greece, India, and China. "It is known that around 1860, the daughters of the Duke of Beutfort were playing Battledore and Shuttlecock in the great hall of Badminton house, the seat of the Somerset family in Gloucestershire, England. To add a little variety, they rigged up a string across the hall from the doorway to the fireplace and the aim of the game was to try to keep the shuttle going by playing it to each other over the string. It is believed that Mr. J L Baldwin suggested that it would be more amusing if the shuttle were to be hit away from instead of towards players on the other side of the string. The sport of badminton had been created."Gloucestershire is now the foundation for the International Badminton Federation. 131 countries are members of the IBF today."The American Badminton Association was organized in 1936 (changed to USBA in 1978), when Donald Wilbur, Robert McMillan, and twins Donald and Phillip Richardson, all from Brookline, Massachusetts, decided to combine the nation's various badminton groups. Programs from New York, Massachusetts, Chicago,
The sport of badminton in June 1985 was recognized by the International Olympic Committee and voted unanimously to full-medal Olympic status. After having been a demonstration sport at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and an exhibition sport in 1988 in Seoul, badminton made a full-medal debut at the Olympic games in Barcelona in 1992. In which More than 1.1 billion people watched badminton's Olympic debut on TV. Players change ends at the end of a game and when the leading score reaches 8 in a game of 15 points (or 6 in a game of 11 points) in the third game. A five-minute interval is allowed prior to any third game." First you toss, "The winner of the toss can elect to serve or receive in the first game, or to choose to play at a particular end of the court. The loser of the toss makes the remaining choice. The two most successful badminton countries are China and Indonesia, which between them have won 70% of all IBF events. Crowds of up to 15000 are common for major badminton tournaments in Malaysia and Indonesia. The laws of badminton may seem simple to the players, but are actually rather complicated. The laws are based on 4 basic things, the initial toss, Basic Aim, Serving, and Scoring. Matches comprise of the best of three games. Each game starts at 0-0 (traditionally called "love-all") if the serving side wins a rally, it scores a point, and serves again but from the alternate service court. If the receiving side wins the rally, the score remains unchanged and the service passes to the next player in turn. In singles, this is the opponent: in double it's eith
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