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Dr David Guthrie Freeman (D.G. Freeman) is an American badminton and tennis player. He was born in 1920. He played badminton as a member of the American Thomas Cup team in 1948, establishing himself as the greatest singles player of the era. After he turned 18 he never lost a match.
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Richard Meade OBE is a British three-day event horseman. He was born in 1938. He was a member of Britain's gold-medal winning team at the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games and won the 1970 Badminton championship riding 'The Poacher', and later in 1970 was a member of the British winning team at the world championships. At the 1972 Munich Olympic Games he won a gold medal in both the individual and team events riding 'Laurieston'.
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Badminton - named after a seat of the Duke of Beaufort, in Gloucestershire - is a game somewhat similar to lawn tennis, played on a rectangular court by two players, or two pairs of players, with light rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a high net that divides the court in half. Badminton became popular in England as a game for men during the 1960's and developed from the earlier non-competitive game of battledore and shuttlecock.
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Batinton is a game for two or four players based on Badminton with a table tennis scoring system. The game is played indoors or outdoors on any non-slippery surface. The standard court is 36 feet by 12 feet but the width may vary between 10 feet and 13 feet. The game is played with a bat, similar in construction to a table tennis bat, but longer.
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Battledore and Shuttlecock was an ancient outdoor co-operative game for two or more players in which a feathered object, the shuttlecock, is kept in the air by means of batting it upwards with a bat or racket, known as the battledore. The challenge of the game was to score as many hits as possible, with all players scores being added together. The game of Battledore and Shuttlecock is thought to have originated in ancient Greece around 1 BC and spread to the Far East before arriving in England where it was recorded in Mediaeval times. By the 19th century the game of Battledore and Shuttlecock had been taken over by badminton.
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Fly Ball is a bat-and-ball game of the tennis type played with a shuttlecock. The racket is the shape of a table-tennis bat and has a net hitting surface. The shuttlecock is like that used in badminton.
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Sepak Takraw is a game played with a rattan ball on a badminton court and popular in south-eastern Asia where it is known under several names: Sipak, Takraw, Sepak raga.
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The Thomas Cup is a silver-gilt trophy of the international badminton championship which was donated to the International Badminton Federation in 1939 by Sir George Thomas, then president of the federation. The first Thomas Cup matches were delayed by the Second World War and took place in 1948.
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The Uber Cup is the team trophy for the women's international badminton championship. It was presented to the International Badminton Federation by Mrs Uber in 1956. Like its counterpart, the Thomas Cup, the Uber Cup is competed for every three years with preliminary rounds taking place geographically and the winners meeting at one location for a play off.
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Badminton is a drink made of spiced and sweetened claret. It was a favourite of the Duke of Beaufort of Badminton, hence the name.
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