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I'm watching the women's final of the All England Badminton Championships. I turned it on as a lark, because I remember playing it when I was younger and thought they could never turn it into a seriously followed sport, but there must be 30,000 people at the arena in Birmingham England and these players are laying some SERIOUS Badminton! It's very, very exciting to watch and I think I've suddenly become a very big fan! Give it a try! It's a good as, if not better then watching championship tennis.
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The tournament is over and I cheated by looking at the result of the match I'm watching, but I don't care because they are doing what I thought was impossible, taking what I considered just a backyard game and making it into a very, very exciting sport to watch!!!
Badminton is very popular in China. Schools have tournaments. People play it on the strees like kids in Canada did street hockey.
The one I watched was between a woman from Japan and one from China. The one from Japan won but just barely in 3 very exciting sets. I couldn't take my eyes away. Like I said it was even better then watching a great tennis match. They are fantastically strong, fast and agile athletes and make some seemingly impossible shots. I am defiantly a new fan the of the sport and will keep an eye on the international sports channels on my TV for more games.