Dubai Sports Council celebrates the gold of the Danish champion

Olympic champion Axelsen decides to reside in Dubai

Saeed Hareb honors Olympic champion Victor Axelsen.

From the source

The Olympic champion, who won the badminton gold in the last Tokyo Olympics, the Danish Victor Axelsen, revealed his intention to reside and train in Dubai, during the coming period, and start from it to participate in the world championships.

This step came from the player, as he revealed it yesterday, after he set up a successful camp in Dubai, which lasted for 10 months before the Olympics in the Nad Al Sheba Sports Complex and Hamdan Sports Complex, which contributed to qualifying him to win his first gold medal in this game, after he scored Bronze medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Victor Axelsen visited the headquarters of the Dubai Sports Council, to thank its officials, who provided him with all the facilities during the preparation phase for the Olympics.

The Secretary-General of the Dubai Sports Council, Saeed Hareb, received the Olympic champion, in the presence of the Council's Assistant Secretary Nasser Aman Al Rahma, as the conversation between them touched on the beginnings of the preparation stage in Dubai for the Olympics, and the Danish champion's journey to win the Olympic gold, and a cake was prepared in the form of the Olympic medal in celebration. The Dubai friend won the gold, while the hero presented his official shirt to the Dubai Sports Council.

Champion Victor Axelsen confirmed that the Tokyo Olympics gold is the culmination of a 21-year career of training and playing in several international and world championships.

He said in a press statement: "I found in Dubai everything that any player aspires to achieve progress in his sport, where a quiet and safe lifestyle and wonderful areas, in addition to the availability of modern sports facilities, and a supportive atmosphere, and the athlete can focus on training and preparation, which is what I achieved. In the successful period I spent in Dubai, and encouraged me to return and reside there with my family, to continue training and playing, and I could open a badminton academy here after retiring.”

He added: “I started playing the game at a young age, with the support of my family, and I trained in the center near our house, and my family spent a lot of time and money to support me and develop my level, until I signed my first professional contract, when I turned 16, and the financial return was unimaginable. Enough to continue my career.

He pointed out: “I and my father had to get sponsors to pay for my training and the salaries of the coach, manager and physiotherapist who work with me, as well as pay for travel expenses and continued participation in tournaments around the world to get to where I am now, and win the bronze in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics, Then winning the World Championships in 2017, and winning the gold in the Tokyo Olympics 2021, as she became the first non-Asian player to win the Olympic badminton singles title since 1996.

He continued: "Access to the top of any individual game requires a very great effort, in training and preparation, and the support of the state and the family, and I, through sponsors, spent a lot of money to win Olympic gold, as the rate of spending per year was about one million dirhams. In addition to training for five hours a day, and participating in tournaments throughout the year.”

exhibition match

During his visit, Victor participated in an exhibition match in badminton, held by the Dubai Sports Council, in which he demonstrated his high skills with a number of participants in the "Badminton Time Dubai" program, which was launched by the Dubai Sports Council with the International Federation of the game since 2014, with the aim of building a base of practitioners of players, coaches and referees, and the increase in the spread of this sport in the UAE in general, and Dubai in particular.

Dubai hosted the finals of the Badminton World Championships at the Hamdan Sports Complex for four years, and Dubai also hosted the Badminton World League.

• Olympic gold costs one million dirhams annually... and 5 hours of daily training.

• “I found in Dubai everything that any player aspires to achieve progress in his sport.”

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