Danish badminton star: My debt to China
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.
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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