It is a rocket, launched in the air, which lands like an aeroplane after falling like a shuttlecock.

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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's "Soft Shuttlecock" drapes its 24-foot-long painted canvas feathers over a stone wall high overhead.

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We are entering the age of the global Olympian, in which a top-notch competitor can be bounced easily from one country to another like a shuttlecock.

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Links of London's charm collection celebrates specific Olympic sports such as table tennis and badminton, so there is a ping-pong paddle and a shuttlecock, alongside hearts and clovers, symbolizing the themes of luck and love.

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World doubles champions Wang and Yu of China, and their South Korean opponents, Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na, received loud boos from the crowd after directing serves into the net and making simple errors like hitting the shuttlecock wide.

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