PARIS — The NBA and WNBA stars hyped to compete in the Olympics this summer will be playing their first week more than 100 miles away from the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre museum, despite intense ...

Beiwen Zhang was 8 years old when she first picked up a badminton racket. It was all part of a plan to improve the youngster’s health, and it worked. The Chinese-born athlete stayed with the sport, ...

The trouble began with a conversation about nine years ago, when a teenage badminton player, talented enough to compete internationally, told a friend and fellow competitor that a prominent coach they ...

Imagine having such a storied presence behind you when you are a teenager trying to break into the famously unbreachable ...