where did badminton start?
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->  A form of badminton was played in ancient Greece and Egypt. But it wasn't called badminton then. They had battledore kind of bat, with no nets.. and all inside a single court trying not to let the object fall down - This was not called as badminton\n\n-> Then in China(or Japan I am not sure about this) played with legs not letting the feather Bird (looked like nowadays-bird) - This even was not as badminton\n\n-> Then in India (Pune City) the Britishers tied nets for the first time and called it as Poona (named after the city)\n\n-> British Army officers stationed in India in the 1860s took the game back to England. In 1873, it was played at a party given by the Duke of Beaufort at his Gloucestershire estate, which was called Badminton. So it came to be called "the Badminton game."
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Football originated in Britain and the first 'internationals' were between the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. When football became international they carried on that way. Cricket has separate teams too. \n\nIncidentally the UK can't enter a football team for the Olympic Football event as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can't agree on forming a British team and so no team at all is sent for that competition
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Badminton. Easy. ;) Its Actually Called a Shuttlecock. Just so you know.
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It was there from the beginning.  in fact, hockey was first played at the summer olympics in 1908, before there even was a winter olympics.
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A lot of sports are exciting to play and watch to name a few Soccer, Cricket, Basketball, Baseball, American Football, Tennis, Table Tennis, Rugby, Badminton ..... depends on the individuals taste and resources available.\n\nBeing from the south asian origin, I personally am a die hard cricket fan but when it comes to peronal fitness, I would vote for Soccer and Badminton would come next.
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1964, Tokyo\nThe first Asian country to host the Olympics, Tokyo spent $3bn rebuilding the city to show off its post-war success. The Yoshinori Sakai was chosen as the final torchbearer, who was born on the day that Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb.
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Not one country.\nGames revolving around the kicking of a ball have been played in many countries through history. The earliest documented version is the Mesoamerica ballgame, played by the Olmec as early as 1500 BCE. The Chinese game Cuju is mentioned in military manuals from the time of the Qin Dynasty (255–206 BCE).[3] Other ancient ball games include kemari in Japan and the Roman game Harpastum. Various forms of mob football were played in mediæval Europe, though rules varied greatly by both period and location.\nThe modern game developed in England following the formation of the Football Association, whose 1863 set of rules created the foundations for the way the sport is played today.
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The first championship was being held in 1930. \nThis years championship will start on June 9 and end on July 9.
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The present football invented by England. However, thousand of years back, China already playing such games at a smaller scale in palace.
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Holyoke, Massachusetts. That is where the sport was originated in 1885.
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In Britain, But I think there was a game much alike soccer in ancient China.
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The answer to your question can be found on the official website of the International Badminton Federation:\n\nhttp://www.badmintoninternational.net/website/council.asp
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The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Bobby Robinson, a major influence within athletics in Canada at the time, finally implemented the event that had been talked about amongst Commonwealth nations for over thirty years. Eleven countries with 400 athletes in total participated in the first Commonwealth Games. $30,000 was provided by the City of Hamilton to these nations to help cover travelling costs. Since then, the Games have been conducted every four years except for 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.\n\nFrom 1930 to 1950 the Games were known as the British Empire Games, then the British Empire and Commonwealth Games until 1962. From 1966 to 1974 they took on the title of British Commonwealth Games and from 1978 onwards they have been known as simply the Commonwealth Games. A governor-general represents her in the country.
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Many different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer were played almost 3000 years ago. \n\n  \n \n\nOne of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\nThe Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer. The early Olympic games in  Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game. \n\nWhile historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.
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The game of snooker was invented by a Britain, Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain of the British Army garrisons of India. The game is believed to have came about as a mix of other billiard games, mainly english billiards, this new billiard sport of snooker surfaced around 1875.\n\nThe term snooker was used as a derogatory term for the first year recruits of the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich in England. For many years the game was known as 'Snookers Pool' and was played with a smaller number of balls and to very different scoring rules than the game we know today.\n\nIt wasn't until the Early 1900's that the game evolved to the game it is now. Played by the army officers and aristocracy stationed in India the game grew in complexity and in its parts. The game of snooker has pretty much stayed the same since
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I don't know... badminton is a great sport, I like playing it, but many people consider it to be an activity, not a sport. Yahoo please put badminton in thank you.
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tennis, badminton, volleyball, netball,paddle,beach volleyball