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Australia And Cold War. Badminton is one of the most popular sports in the world
and has been around for a very long time. Its popularity ...
... zone of its own that comprised Western Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Australia,
New Zealand ... for the first few years of the early Cold War the conflict ...
... Following the end of the Cold War security concerns were replaced by economic concerns.
This was particularly worrying to Australia due to the fact that ...
... During this time the USA and the USSR were in the cold war conflict over ... Australia
became involved in the war in the early 1960?s. Australia feared that if ...
... in particular its political significance to Australia. Many global factors have
influenced this relationship, including the advent of the Cold War, the Korean ...
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Badminton is one of the most popular sports in the world and has been around for a very long time. Its popularity is spreading rapidly across the US. In this paper I will discuss the history and origin of badminton, the rules, and facts that I found interesting in badminton.
Badminton originated in India and then went on to China, Japan and Thailand. An early version of this game in china used a shuttlecock but not a racket. Instead the shuttle was manipulated with feet. In England it was called shuttlecock and was hit with a wooden paddle by children. British army officers began to play it as a competition in Pune, India where badminton got its first name; Poona. In 1877 the first ever set of rules were invented for badminton along with the first badminton club.
In the traditional scoring system, men’s singles games were played to 15 points and women's singles which was played up to 11. A match was decided by the best of three games. Only the serving players were able to score a point. In doubles, both players of a pair would serve before the service returned to the other side. In 1992 people made new rules saying that if the players were tied at 13-13 or 14-14 (9-9 or 10-10 for women's singles), the player who had first reached that score could decide elect to set and play to 17 (or to 13 for women's singles). In December 2005 the IBF experimented with the scoring system, intending both to regulate the playing time and to simplify the system for television viewers. Games were lengthened to 21 points. However, the new scoring system makes the game duration significantly shorter. The experiment ended in May 2006, and the IBF ruled that the new scoring system would be adopted from August 2006 and on. Players win a rally by striking the shuttle onto the floor within the boundaries of their opponents' court. Players also win a rally if their opponents commit a fault. The most common fault in badminton is when the players fail to return the shuttle...
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