Brazil will make its first appearance in the sport of Badminton at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. It’s one of the few sports that already has its own mascot: a Chinese-Brazilian character, whose name was chosen by public vote to help build interest in a sport that is relatively unknown in the football-crazy nation of Brazil. CCTV’s Lucrecia Franco filed this report from Rio.
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