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Some absent-minded Huelva man is asking these days if the Badminton World Championship. And although the answer is a negative, it is not a trivial question. Because anyone who looks out these days for him Sports Palace ‘Carolina Marín’ you will meet up 13 playing courts, Marathon days of up to 12 hours and more than 300 daily matches.
Your surprise will be greater when you realize the age of the players, which varies between the 35 years of the ‘youngest’ to the more than 75 years of the veterans. And of course, you won’t find any professional among them. Is he Senior World Championship, a mix of well-organized fun for the participants and good business for the promoters of the event.
The ‘other World Cup’ brings together 1.338 athletes from 49 countries, that until next December 4 they will dispute a total of 1.548 matches in 7 days, at the rate of 26 games per hour. An impressive pace of play. The tournament also serves to grease the organizational machinery of the ‘real World Cup’, the Absolute, which will take place from December 12 to 19, with or without Carolina Marín.
