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Unenlightened fans are missing out. The Harvard club team boasts both the pseudo-Latin motto non est picnicum and over 60 top-flight athletes from around the world, which leads to some exciting badminton action...
Aidan C. O’Connor ’05, a women’s singles specialist, hates badminton’s reputation as a sport for women who use parasols and salad forks. “I would never, ever call badminton a delicate sport,” she says. In fact, according to the club’s website and numerous other badminton sites, the shuttlecock—which can travel at speeds up to 200 mph—is the second-fastest-moving object in sports behind the jai-alai ball...
According to badminton fans and badminton Internet message board junkies, their beloved sport is second only to soccer in the competition to be the world’s most-played sport. At the Olympics, competitors are divided into three divisions: singles, doubles and mixed doubles, making badminton—along with ice-skating and ballroom dancing—one of the only high-profile coed sports in the world...
...strapping Swiss import and Harvard’s men’s singles virtuoso, is playing, a shuttlecock will last about five minutes. At $15 a dozen, Wu’s brawn can get expensive. It pays off, though—Wu leads the Harvard Badminton Club in tournament play...
Right now, the HBC is preparing for the Boston Open, which takes place at the end of February. More than anything, the club needs fans, as its matches are often horribly under-attended. Not only can spectators enjoy high-quality badminton, the diehard fan can invest in an HBC t-shirt—emblazoned, inevitably, with the adage “Balls of Feathers, Shuttlecocks of Steel...