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☆ Yonex debuts partly recycled sneakers at badminton World Championships
  + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Richa Naidu | Thomson Reuters | London-Based Reporter Covering Retail | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - As the world's best badminton players travel home after the World Championships in Denmark, the sport's leading manufacturer Yonex (7906.T) told Reuters some of them were fighting it out for the first time in sneakers made partly from recycled materials. In addition to appeasing environmentally conscious shoppers, the companies argue that switching to recycled materials helps reduce waste and their reliance on finite resources. While developing the products, Yonex thought about how to blend materials in order to overcome the challenge of the physical properties of sustainable materials generally being different to traditional materials. He added that sustainable materials currently cost more to use because suppliers mass-produce traditional materials. Yonex said it uses sustainable materials in 83% of its apparel products, such as organic cotton or recycled fibers.
Persons: Chen Yu Fei, Viktor Axelsen, Yonex, Shinichiro Chiba, Chiba, Taiwan's Victor, Richa Naidu, David Holmes Organizations: Reuters, Sports, Adidas, Badminton World Federation, Olympic, Thomson Locations: Denmark, Tokyo, China
☆ BWF extends ban on 'spin serve' until after Paris Olympics
  + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
May 29 (Reuters) - The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has extended the ban on the new "spin serve" until after next year's Paris Olympics and Paralympics, it said on Monday. The BWF this month temporarily banned the serve, which involves a player spinning the shuttle before launching it, after it proved to be tough to return or completely unplayable. "After consultation with the badminton community, BWF Council believed it best to forbid the 'spin serve' for another 15 months so as to not impact the Olympic and Paralympic qualifying periods and the Games themselves," the BWF said. The BWF secretary general Thomas Lund said the governing body "welcomed innovation in badminton" but added that "more evidence was needed on the potential effects" of the serve before introducing it. Reporting by Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru, editing by Ed OsmondOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Badminton federation extends ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
April 20 (Reuters) - The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has maintained its ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes participating in international tournaments, the governing body said on Thursday. The BWF first banned Russian and Belarusian athletes in March last year after Russia invaded Ukraine, initially using its ally Belarus as a staging ground in what Russia called a "special military operation". Table tennis, fencing, judo and taekwondo are among the Olympic sports which have readmitted athletes from the two countries as neutrals. The BWF said in a statement that the decision to extend the ban was taken at its council meeting on Tuesday. "However... BWF is not convinced there is satisfactory justification to lift the suspensions on Russian and Belarussian players and officials at this time.
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