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How on earth do you play badminton against the redeemer of all mankind? The Spanish have an idiosyncratic system of forenames. Or perhaps ...

Badminton’s a game I play, not one I watch. Today, however, I made an exception. I was with a friend who regularly gives me a thrashing on...

The worst bit of walking back from my Sunday morning badminton class is that most of the walk’s uphill. That’s painful after an hour’s drill...

One of the advantages of the weekend, is that the kind of exercise I take changes. During the week, it’s swimming. But at the weekend it’s...

Swimming’s a real super-sport. Exercises every part of you. Doesn’t put particular strain anywhere. But it has one huge intractable problem:...

An excellent test of the character of a town is the quality of its badminton. When we were living in the Paris region, we were in a beauti...