isis answered Monday February 19 2007, 7:39 pm: I guess you could say it's an official sport - they play it in the Olympics. It was played in ancient Greece and Eygpt and was originally called battledore or shuttlecock. It ws also called Poona in India, and only got the name Badminton after the Duke of Beaufort introduced at a house party in 1873. It had no official name at the time but as his house was called Badminton............!
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