Richard Vaughan

Opening the Badminton Session at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

It was a tremendous honour to be part of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and to open the badminton session before the semifinals as a former Olympian. Standing on that stage, surrounded by the energy and passion of the world’s best athletes, was a truly special moment. The Games in Paris were a resounding success, […]

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Tennis is facing an existential crisis over doping. How will it respond?

As the Australian Open gets under way in Melbourne, the sport is facing a crisis over positive doping tests involving two of the biggest stars in tennis. Last March, the top-ranked men’s player, Jannik Sinner, tested positive for clostebol, a banned anabolic agent, twice. The substance was quickly traced to a product that was used

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Vaughan Elected Vice President Badminton World Federation

TWO-TIME Olympian Richard Vaughan has expressed his joy after securing a place on the executive board of badminton’s world governing body. The 45-year-old, from Llanbradach, Wales, is the Badminton World Federation’s new vice-president, succeeding João Matos of Portugal. Vaughan, who represented Great Britain in badminton at the Olympics in 2000 and 2004, was elected during

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Badminton Ireland Provides Support to Lesotho

Another great project at Badminton Ireland was the collaborative work we undertook with a charity that worked with Irish school children to do exchanges in Africa, especially home building programmes in Lesotho. Through this charity and the badminton school children involved we formed a campaign to raise equipment for the Lesotho Badminton Federation.

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