Danish badminton star: My debt to China

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Danish Olympian Viktor Axelsen says China badminton has been an inspiration to him. The world number one has even been learning the Chinese language for a decade.   #paris2024 #olympics

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00:00China and Chinese badminton has meant a lot to my career actually, you know, it's the players

00:04I've been looking to in order to improve myself. I very much respect

00:09You know their work ethic and the way they play

00:12They're very very strong mentally and physically and just an overall very strong team. So I've gotten a lot of motivation

00:19It's also why I chose to learn Mandarin

00:22to sort of understand how is the culture how you know, how

00:27How how are the Chinese team doing things

00:30And also just as a country in general, I I really much respect the way they have been able to to grow

00:36As a country and how they you know, how they work how hard they work

00:40I think we're getting close to around 10 years now or something like that, you know

00:44Obviously in the start I studied way more seriously than I'm doing now

00:47I would say that right now I'm sort of in a maintenance phase and still trying to have some classes here and there but I

00:53Use it on a weekly basis

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