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		Badminton ? news reports, Sydney results, ancient origins, Olympic history, Atlanta results, the competition, rules in brief, the taking part and GB squad ^Votes:0 OLYMPIC HISTORY Badminton was a demonstration sport at the Games of 1972 and 1988 before it achieved full Olympic status at Barcelona in 1992, when romance was in the air; the first winners of Olympic badminton titles and Olympic gold medals in any sport for Indonesia, Susi Susanti and Allan Budi Kusuma, were engaged to be married. Their successes capped an overwhelming triumph for Asian nations, one that was reflected in the fact that Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen, of Denmark, was the only non-Asian to win a medal, an individual bronze. Susanti won her title over Bang Soo-hyun, of South Korea, two hours before Kusuma beat Ardy Wiranata, his Indonesia team-mate. The couple returned home to a victory parade through the streets of Jakarta in a car carrying a giant shuttlecock; crowds chanted their Read More Go to Site


		HickokSports.com - History - Badminton ^Votes:0 Sports History Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum Links Search Badminton History Table of Contents History Other Resources History Badminton probably originated in India as a grownup's version of a very old children's game known in England as battledore and shuttlecock, the battledore being a paddle and the shuttlecock a small feathered cork, now usually balled a "bird." Played for centuries by children in India, Siam, and Japan, this was a cooperative game in which the players worked together to keep the "bird" in the air for as long as possible. A net was added and the game had become a competitive sport called "poona" by the 1860s, when British Army officers were playing it in India. Some of them brought equipment back to England and introduced t Read More Go to Site

		OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT ^Votes:0 Olympic Games Sports Athletes News The Movement Olympic Museum Education FranÇais www.olympic.org - Site Officiel du Mouvement Olympique Olympic News 20 November 2007 YOG 2010: Bid city presentations via video conference After selecting five Candidate Cities for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, the IOC announced today the procedure it will follow to evaluate these candidates. Athens (GRE), Bangkok (THA), Moscow (RUS), Singapore (SIN) and Turin... [ Full story ] Five cities to compete to host the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010 (19 November 2007) Rogge urges participants at World Doping Conference to do a lot and do it fast (15 November 2007) A Roaring Lion in the Country of Kangaroos (15 November 2007) More Olympic news Media Centre Press releases and more 262 days to go One Wor Read More Go to Site

		OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT ^Votes:0 Olympic Games Sports Athletes News The Movement Olympic Museum Education FranÇais www.olympic.org - Site Officiel du Mouvement Olympique Olympic News 20 November 2007 YOG 2010: Bid city presentations via video conference After selecting five Candidate Cities for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, the IOC announced today the procedure it will follow to evaluate these candidates. Athens (GRE), Bangkok (THA), Moscow (RUS), Singapore (SIN) and Turin... [ Full story ] Five cities to compete to host the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010 (19 November 2007) Rogge urges participants at World Doping Conference to do a lot and do it fast (15 November 2007) A Roaring Lion in the Country of Kangaroos (15 November 2007) More Olympic news Media Centre Press releases and more 262 days to go One Wor Read More Go to Site

		USA Badminton USA in the Olympics ^Votes:0 USA BADMINTON - USA IN THE OLYMPICS One Olympic Plaza &#149 Colorado Springs, CO 80909 phone: (719) 866-4808 &#149 fax: (719) 866-4507 &#149 e-mail: usab@usabadminton.org The sport of badminton was forever changed when, in June 1985, the International Olympic Committee recognized the sport?s magnitude (the IBF has 129 member countries) and voted unanimously to promote badminton 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 hugely successful full-medal debut at the Games of the XXVth Olympiad in Barcelona in 1992. Badminton?s worldwide popularity was proven during the 1992 Olympics, when an estimated 1.1 billion viewers around the globe watched the eight-day inaugural badminton Read More Go to Site

		washingtonpost.com: Badminton in the Olympics ^Votes:0 [an error occurred while processing this directive] SOURCE: USBA Go to Badminton Section Badminton in the Olympics The sport of badminton was forever changed when, in June 1985, the International Olympic Committee recognized the sport?s magnitude (the IBF has 129 member countries) and voted unanimously to promote badminton 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 hugely successful full-medal debut at the Games of the XXVth Olympiad in Barcelona in 1992. Badminton?s worldwide popularity was proven during the 1992 Olympics, when an estimated 1.1 billion viewers around the globe watched the eight-day inaugural badminton competition on television. As expected, Asian countries Read More Go to Site

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