- Badminton is the second most popular sport in the World, after soccer.
- Badminton is the fastest racket sport with shuttle clocking speed in excess of 200 mph.
- Badminton requires superb conditioning. In a typical two-game match, a player run approximately one mile.
- Badminton is an Olympic Sport first introduced in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona with more than 1 billion TV audiences.
- The speed and the stamina required for badminton are far greater than for any other racket sport.
- The International Badminton Federation (IBF) has over 150 member associations with more than 14 million members world-wide.
- The official game of badminton was born in a stately home in Gloucester shire, England, home of the Duke of Beaufort.
- The best shuttlecocks are made from the feathers from the left wing of a goose.
- In competition, badminton players compete for half the time, yet run twice as far and hit nearly twice as many shots.
- When a shot is played in tennis, the whole of the arm is used in one sweeping action, whereas in badminton, a wide range of motions is employed, from delicate flicks of the wrist and pressing of fingers to full-body smashes and clears.
