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...The nearly 100-year-old games, staged every four years, involve nations from the Commonwealth — made up largely of states with historic connections to the UK — competing in a variety of sports, from badminton...
...Badminton House in the south of Gloucestershire is a stately home owned by the Duchess of Beaufort; it’s also available for weddings....
...In its heyday, the top home players always competed, with occasional dazzling successes such as Sir George Thomas, better known for badminton, in 1934-35, and Hugh Alexander, codebreaker and FT chess columnist...
...His father played baseball for a local semi-professional club, and his mother was competitive in badminton....
...DHL, one of the world’s largest delivery groups, said some of its facilities offer “multipurpose space” for sports activities such as basketball, badminton and futsal, a variation on five-a-side football...
...It has the proportions of a badminton racquet and has no other purpose than looking good on Instagram....
...With its badminton court, private cabanas and outdoor barbecue zone, it seems well-accoutred for good times; should you wish to up the ante with live entertainment or chefs, the Tribe Caribe team is on hand...
...My dad is among the 4.8mn Americans who picked up his paddle in 2022, making the combination of badminton, ping-pong and tennis the fastest growing sport in the country....
...There’s a quite fabulous bamboo-ceilinged badminton court, and views over a tributary of the holy Ayung river, and it’s an easy 10-minute walk into Ubud town. rumah-hujan.com, from $1,090 for the whole estate...
...Instead, she headed to Salt Lake City, Utah, to host a tournament for an emerging but rapidly growing sport called pickleball, a fast-paced tennis-badminton hybrid played close to the net, which fans praise...
...The new arrivals were a little bored, with not much to do except play badminton or wander the sleepy streets. They were impatient to start learning German....
...One evening I went to play badminton at an old gym in Shanghai, where I found the courts soaking wet. I was almost certain it was disinfectant....
...Pickleball was invented in 1965 by a family of would-be badminton players who had lost their shuttlecock. The sport took off during the pandemic....
...There was a time when I was going to the gym, playing badminton and a lot more active. Now, apart from walks and 30 minutes on my rowing machine and 30 more on the bike, it’s all about the excuses....
...Along the same private road as the golf course is the 300-berth marina and country club, which offers a comprehensive spa, gym, pool, golf simulator, a six-hole pitch and putt course, squash, badminton and...
...Instead, we threw badminton shuttles, which ran out after a few weeks. After that, we were ordered to swing towels to mimic the tossing of grenades. The danger of war in the Taiwan Strait is growing....
...A host of other international sport federations, including for football, badminton, cycling, hockey, athletics and lacrosse, have this month updated or said they intended to review rules governing gender...
...There’s an elderly couple hunting for reading glasses, a small child building sandcastles, two teenagers attempting to play badminton, a wealthy couple with upmarket sunloungers, a guy with a man-bun doing...
...Seeing this vocal badminton, the thought occurred that it might work as a radio play, in which case the speaking, which dominates, would make more sense. ★★☆☆☆ carnegiehall.org...
...include a view of the Grand Canal in Venice by Canaletto (c1745, estimate in the region of $6mn), which hung in the entrance hall, and a pair of George II armchairs made by William and John Linnell for Badminton...
...The resort has a “platinum seven-star hotel, nine centres (for international conferences, catering, health, sports, badminton, tennis, business, children and entertainment), a bar street and a food street...
...The IOC said Peng also accepted an invitation to dinner with Bach, Terho and Li Lingwei, a former badminton Olympic champion, in January....
...India has managed just a silver in weightlifting and bronzes in badminton and boxing alongside its third place in hockey at Tokyo 2020....
...You know, you can’t, you know, just walk up to a world championship in any of these events in gymnastics and figure skating and badminton, you name it, and just say, well, I like playing the sport, so I...
...New shared pastimes are often recommended, though I’m not convinced the world needs any more middle-aged badminton players....
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