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Badminton: 5 Unusual Facts About This Sport

In competition, badminton is always played indoors. Badminton is a racket sport that can be played in singles or doubles, like tennis. However, unlike most racket sports, the projectile used is not a ball. Players hit a shuttlecock with unique aerodynamic properties back and forth. As the shuttlec ...

08
Feb
2008

Tennis: Who is Suzanne Lenglen in 5 Questions

rnament, 6 times. She also won three Olympic medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp: a gold medal in women's singles, a bronze medal in women's doubles, and a gold medal in mixed doubles. 3- Why is Suzanne Lenglen famous? Of course, Suzanne Lenglen entered the legend for her incredible track ...

04
June
2024

Roland Garros: Test Your Knowledge of the Tournament

on the men's singles at the Roland Garros tournament in 1983. Henri Leconte was a finalist in the men's singles in 1988 and both players won the men's doubles in 1984. Additionally, Guy Forget was a two-time finalist in this event, in 1987 with Yannick Noah, and in 1996 with Jakob Hlasek. The Fre ...

23
May
2007

Tiramisu: an easy recipe

eparate the egg whites from the yolks. 2- Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar, preferably using an electric mixer, until the mixture becomes pale and doubles in volume. 3- Incorporate the mascarpone and the alcohol of your choice (marsala or rum). 4- Add a pinch of salt to the egg whites and beat ...

01
Aug
2007

5 things to know about avatars

. Even though we are not deities, we also use avatars to embody ourselves in worlds that would otherwise be inaccessible to us. Through these virtual doubles, we might even experience a form of digital immortality. But of course, life after death in the digital realm is just an illusion that we sho ...

26
Oct
2023

Pickleball: The New Trendy Racket Sport

at shares some common characteristics with tennis. In fact, it is sometimes called light tennis in French... Like tennis, it is played in singles or doubles. Opponents stand on either side of a net and hit the ball back and forth using a racket until one of them makes a fault. However, this racket ...

19
July
2024

Boccia: the Paralympic sport that resembles pétanque

he red team starts the game by throwing the equivalent of the jack, a white ball called the Jack. Matches are played: • in 4 ends for individual or doubles matches. • In 6 ends for team matches of three. Who can play boccia? Boccia players or boccians are athletes with severe motor and/ ...

29
Aug
2024