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BWF reschedules 2021 Badminton World Championships to make way for Olympics

Carolina Marin of Spain competes against V. Sindhu Pusarla of India during the Women's Singles Gold Medal Match on Day 14 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

The Badminton World Federation has rescheduled next year’s Badminton World Championships to make way for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The badminton event was originally slated to take place in Huelva, Spain in August 2021, but the decision to move the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games to the months of July, August and September next year has forced it to change its plans.

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