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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Two years ago the European MA’s gave me their confidence to serve a four year term as Vice-President for Europe at the Badminton World Federation (BWF). Hald way through that period it has been incredibly busy yet deeply rewarding. In my role as VP BWF Europe, and as Deputy Chair of the Governance Committee, I
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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
Tennis is facing an existential crisis over doping. How will it respond? Read More »
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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I am delighted to have facilitated the transfer of funding from Mid Glamorgan Junior Badminton to Badminton Wales to support future Welsh Badminton stars. Richard Vaughan.
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Some reflections and highlights on my time with Squash Australia where a short three-year stint, became 6 great years.
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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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In 2015 it was rewarding to be part of Badminton Ireland corporate social responsibility (csr) programme where we ran a donate a racquet campaign across the country in partnership with a local Irish Charity and the BWF. We were astonished at the support we received. We were able to collect around 600 racquets, 400 shuttles
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Another project I have been involved with is Interactive Squash, a solution that brings the entire Squash court to life using the entire playing surface as interaction with fans, players and alike. The Court can become interactive within match play measuring balls hitting speeds and adding graphics – it is very much like playing in
Innovation and Ivy League Sport Read More »