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Badminton story
The sport of badminton probably first
developed in ancient Greece & Rome,
moving from there towards east to China,
Japan, & India, and towards north to
France & England.
Children in Gloucestershire
and throughout England
had been...
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Badminton story
The sport of badminton probably first
developed in ancient Greece & Rome,
moving from there towards east to China,
Japan, & India, and towards north to
France & England.
Children in Gloucestershire
and throughout England
had been playing the game
they called battledore and
shuttlecock for years. In
fact, the game had been
around since the medieval
days. The object was to use
a paddle that was called a
battledore to keep a
shuttlecock, which at the
time was a cork with
feathers stuck in it, in the air for as long as possible.
The beginnings of modern badminton can be traced to the mid-1800s in
British India, where it was created by British military officers stationed
there. Early photographs show Englishmen adding a net to the traditional
English game of battledore and shuttlecock.
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