The furthest Team USA has ever gone in any Olympic badminton competition was the men's doubles quarterfinals at the 2008 Beijing Games. Players use a racket to hit a birdie, or shuttlecock ...

How does Olympic badminton work? Badminton is a racket sport somewhat similar to tennis, with a net dividing the court in half. Unlike tennis, however, a continuous volley of a shuttlecock is ...

Maybe the Paris 2024 Olympics reignited your love for badminton, or perhaps you’ve been playing for years but your current racket is in need of an upgrade. To help take your swings, drop shots ...

Olympics weren’t even a distant ... Annie and Kerry were working corporate accounting jobs when the badminton bug remerged. They picked up the rackets — a little at a time at first.

But what made Setyana Mapasa picked her racket up again and fought ... After competing at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, Australian badminton player Setyana Mapasa decided to retire as an athlete.

Players use a racket to hit a birdie ... China has dominated badminton at the Olympics, winning 20 of the sport's 39 gold medals overall. China's 47 combined medals are more than double the ...