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Badminton has a unique poetry, yet it’s a sport which needs fixing
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The extraordinary An Se-young deserves to be more widely celebrated than she is.
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Back in 2008, when he was Rembrandt with a racket, even The New York Times, for which this game was some exotic novelty, took notice. In August that year a headline read: China’s Badminton Rock Star Has The Talent To Back His Strut.
They were talking about Lin Dan, of course, but badminton, a game of high-speed poetry, a lunging, lung-searing ballet, always seems to be struggling for attention. In a razzle-dazzle sporting planet replete with heroes, how do you get people to notice yours?
