Word: shuttlecocked
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...Show more badminton. Laugh all you want, but have you ever seen how fast two Olympic-level competitors can knock around a shuttlecock? Of course you haven't, because badminton, table tennis, race walking and for that matter almost any of the more obscure Olympic sports haven't made the prime-time lineup. Instead, NBC relies on the more familiar gymnastics, track and field, diving - fine sports all, but focused on in the mistaken belief that, because average viewers recognize them, they'll be of greater general interest...
...director of USA Badminton. "I mean, it's a lot easier for my children to make it to the Olympics in badminton than basketball," he says of the game he keeps referring to as "the fastest sport in the world" but that also requires him to say the word shuttlecock...
...then there's the girl with the shuttlecock, that magical little refugee from a Piero della Francesca, all inwardness as she contemplates the sneak serve she is about to make. The painting's visual rhymes are delicious. Each feather of the shuttlecock, for instance, repeats some element of her appearance. White feathers repeat the white of her apron; a blue feather picks up the blue of her ribbon; a pink feather, the color of her cheek. It is as perfectly made as any sonnet. It makes you realize what rewards can flow from Chardin's desire to link the appearance...
...Final score. TT: 3, BM: 3. But compare the two for yourself. The table tennis team holds open hours Tuesdays 9:30 to 11:00 p.m. and, to kickoff the weekend, Fridays 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. at the MAC mezzanine. To knock around the old shuttlecock with the badminton team, e-mail the new team president Ye Tian at tian@fas.harvard.edu...
...getting hit in the eye with a shuttlecock (try explaining that one with a straight face...