--- title: Rio 2016 Olympics: Badminton Rant Olympics 2004 Mary Carillo description: NBC commentator Mary Carillo's infamous badminton rant from the 2004 Olympics has recently begun making the online rounds again. canonical: https://time.com/4443617/rio-2016-olympics-badminton-rant-2004-olympics/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-08T18:44:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:13.645Z og:title: People Can't Stop Talking About This Amazing Badminton Rant og:description: Witness true passion og:url: https://time.com/4443617/rio-2016-olympics-badminton-rant-2004-olympics/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Can't Stop Talking About This Amazing Badminton Rant twitter:description: Witness true passion twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Announcer's Passionate Badminton Rant Will Get You in the Olympic Spirit > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 8, 2016 6:44 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 8, 2016 6:44 PM UTC While [Katie Ledecky](http://motto.time.com/4442999/rio-olympics-katie-ledecky-katinka-hosszu/) and [Michael Phelps](http://time.com/4443261/rio-2016-olympics-michael-phelps-son/) have been busy winning gold for [Team USA](http://time.com/4442634/ledecky-gold-world-record-rio-2016-olympics/) at the [Rio 2016 Olympics](http://time.com/money/4426714/watch-olympics-rio-games-2016-online/), the Internet has been revisiting one of the best moments to come out of the 2004 summer games: NBC commentator Mary Carillo’s infamous badminton rant. The video of the announcer’s nearly four-minute diatribe has recently begun making the online rounds again, showing Carillo segueing from a brief on the equipment used in the racket sport to a passionate lament on playing the lawn game at home. “And somehow, mothers from all over the neighborhood hear that badminton is being played at Mary’s house,” she says. “They’re dropping off their kids — they know it’s an all day affair — they know it’s gonna involve 17 other sports. They’re dropping off their kids, they’re leaving skid marks!” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4443617/rio-2016-olympics-badminton-rant-2004-olympics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4443617/rio-2016-olympics-badminton-rant-2004-olympics/"},"headline":"This Announcer's Passionate Badminton Rant Will Get You in the Olympic Spirit","datePublished":"2016-08-08T18:44:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:13.645Z","description":"Witness true passion","url":"https://time.com/4443617/rio-2016-olympics-badminton-rant-2004-olympics/","keywords":["Newsfeed","olympics","Summer Olympics","Rio 2016","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics","Rio 2016 Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4443617/rio-2016-olympics-badminton-rant-2004-olympics/","name":"This Announcer's Passionate Badminton Rant Will Get You in the Olympic Spirit"}}]}] ```