Introduction to Rackets

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What is Rackets?
The sport of rackets is an indoor racquet sport played in a high-walled indoor court using a chunky wooden racket similar to a squash racket but typically longer and more powerful. The scoring system and rules are similar to squash. Rackets is played almost exclusively in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.

Is Rackets an Olympic Sport?
Rackets is no longer an Olympic sport but it was contested (only once) as an official Olympic sport, at the 1908 Olympic Games in London. There were two rackets competitions that year, men's singles and men's doubles, and all of the competitors were British.

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