Badminton ranks on the number 22nd position in the most popular sports list.Badminton is the world's fastest racket sport with the speed of the shuttlecock reaching almost 200mph. This sport is not recognized in the US with most Americans thinking it is just a backyard bbq thing. This is how badminton got the bad reputation in the US.
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That depends on where you are. In the United States it would rank 4th after football, Baseball and Basketball. (If Gary Bettman and the NHL owners keep up their nonsensical lockout, it could well drop to 5th in the USA behind soccer.) In Canada it ranks first. In much of Northern Europe it would be at least top two with soccer. Most of the rest of the planet is blissfully unaware of any of the "Big Four" North American sports and would rank soccer as number one.