Badminton is one of China's most popular sports, played casually by millions throughout the country. But it has always had one fatal flaw - it's hard to get filthy freaking rich from playing it.
Xinhua has run an interview with the President of the Badminton World Federation (which, apparently, is a thing) and reached the conclusion that badminton needs a lot more money pumped into it, or else people will keep wasting their lives with jobs.
"If we don't give the players a chance of being a millionaire, I think a lot of parents would say 'No, concentrate and focus on your studies, that is a better future," BWF president Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen told Xinhua.
We can't agree more - China has seen far too many generations wasting their time studying (suckers) instead of trying for the big bucks by hitting a little plastic thing across a net for a while.
Larson also proposed shortening matches to fewer sets, to make the games "shorter but more attractive." If he only enlarged the rackets, swapped the shuttlecock for a tennis ball and just called it a day, he'd really be onto something.
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