BIRMINGHAM: World badminton chief Poul-Erik Hoyer has warned that European players need to find urgent solutions after their disastrous performance at the All-England Open if they want to avoid a permanent power shift to Asia.
Hoyer won two All-England men’s singles titles and an Olympic gold medal for Denmark during the 1990s, but last week’s tournament saw Europe fail to produce a single semi-finalist in any of the five events for the first time in the tournament’s 115-year history.
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