Axelsen – steadfast soldier who will never give up fighting


IT was 2013. And a young upstart of a shuttler was hosting the media at his house in Odense, Denmark.

Viktor Axelsen was only 19 then – but already a world junior champion – and had just picked up Mandarin.

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