Chapter 7: Badminton Around the World

They stand at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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Oldenburg was famous for huge versions of everyday objects.

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They lie on both sides of the museum building.

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The shuttles have 'landed' on either side of it.

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Each is about 16 feet across.

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That is roughly two and a half tonnes.

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They are painted white, with orange-red tips.

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About 9 cm, about 5.5 m and 13.4 m.

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The museum also holds the studies and the model.

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The set was given by the Sosland family.

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It is often called the first feature film about badminton.

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Both later became top international players.

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Deepika Padukone is the daughter of badminton great Prakash Padukone.

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It stars Josie Ho.

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It follows a middle-school team in a country village.

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It is set in the world of competitive badminton in Kerala.

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It is set in a company badminton team.

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2009, 2015, 2021, 2022.

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2021, 2022, 2024.

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It was directed by Ari Sihasale.

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It ran in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon.

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It was collected in 16 volumes.

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The anime came out in 2018.

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It was directed by Shinpei Ezaki.

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It aired from July to October 2018.

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Her coach tries to bring her back to the sport.

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He is voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto.

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2013, February 2018, July 2018, 2019.

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About 6, 13 and 16.

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It is published by Kodansha.

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It ran from 2011 to 2014 in four volumes.

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It ran from April to September 2022.

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It was directed by Hiroshi Takeuchi.

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He joins a badminton club on a whim.

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Its coach scouts him.

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That player is Kento Yusa.

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They appeared in its Poplar Bunko Pureful line.

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2011, 2014, April 2022, September 2022.

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4, about 6 and 24.

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It is based on Asami Koseki's novels.

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Several languages name the game after the feathers.

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Estonian 'sulgpall' is built the same way.

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'Feder' means feather.

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It means feather ball.

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It means 'the flying one'.

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'Pluim' means plume.

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Spanish also uses 'gallito', little rooster, in some countries.

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6, 8, 9 and 10 letters.

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Netherlands, Germany, Finland, China.

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Volant means the flying one.

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Some sources give 1935.

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It is one of the oldest international tournaments.

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Travel was still hard in 1946.

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It was not held from 1956 to 1965.

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Odense later became its regular home.

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It is the city of Hans Christian Andersen.

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It was founded as Danmarks Badminton Forbund.

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1936, 1946, 1956, 1986.

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1899, 1936, 1968.

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The fairy-tale writer was born there in 1805.

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He left the Danish team's Copenhagen centre.

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He also has acute rhinitis.

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Most top events are in Asia.

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He gave a live interview to CCTV in it.

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Brian Yang and Loh Kean Yew also trained there.

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He won the world title in 2021.

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He had won Olympic gold in 2021 and 2024.

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Tokyo 2021, August 2021, Paris 2024, 2026.

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Players came from India, Canada, Singapore and England.

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The Dane settled in Dubai in 2021.

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It is now called Badminton Africa.

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They were Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia.

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Kenya won the men's team title there.

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Tanzania won the women's team title.

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The event was held in Kumasi.

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Dorcas Adesokan had played for Nigeria at Tokyo 2020.

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It was later the Badminton Confederation of Africa.

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Founded in 1977, renamed twice.

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1977, 1979, 2021, 2024.

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Tanzania won the women's title.

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It opened in 2008.

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The project had been delayed.

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The project had begun about four years before.

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A distant relative also helped.

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Padukone was India's first All England champion.

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Open Magazine called it 'The Gopichand Factory'.

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Gopichand coached both.

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1990s, 2001, 2008.

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It opened in 2008.

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He won the All England in 2001.

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He came back to become world number one.

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It happened hours after he won the Malaysia Masters.

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Momota was badly hurt.

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He later had double vision.

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He was on his way to the airport.

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He said he had reached his physical and mental limit.

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After it he played only in Japan.

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2016, 2019, 2020, 2024.

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The surgery came weeks later.

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He had fractured his eye socket in a crash.

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