What is the fastest sport in the world?

Here's a hint - it's not golf.

I remember a teaser from the Star Plus channel (in India) from about twelve years ago - advertising a Badminton event with the tagline "....the fastest game on the planet explodes on Star Plus". I believed them then, but began to grew a shadow of doubt as I tried other sports.

A web search turns out all kinds of results - with websites very confidently touting all kinds of sports like basketball, lacrosse, ice hockey, rocketry (???), laser tag and all kinds of video games as the fastest games on earth. The 2012 olympics website still supports badminton as the officially fastest game on the planet.

I seriously think that table tennis should be a close contender for the title, if not the winner. While the Honolulu Advertiser strengthens my belief, I'd be looking for a yet more reliable source to confirm (or quell) it.

It'd be a little difficult to devise your own criteria to define "fastest sport". For example, reflex time can be one of the criteria. But then, how do you define reflex? Say, how much time does a player have between the opponent's action and his own reaction? In which case, do you take the opponent's fastest action, or average action (for example, in case of badminton, the fastest shuttle speed is 160 mph, but that's not always the case - the slow ones may be 20 mph or so). The fastest action may be misguiding - what about a sport like boxing where the fastest action can be much slower than a 160mph shuttle cock, but given the possibility of having just 6 inches as the distance traveled can make reaction time much much lesser.

I'd just go by experience, and how much sweat you break, and I think badminton takes the cake.