Badminton: Loh Kean Yew on a month's training stint with Olympic champ Axelsen

Singapore shuttler Loh Kean Yew (left) with world No. 2 Viktor Axelsen. PHOTO: LOH KEAN YEW
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SINGAPORE - Loh Kean Yew has his sights set on joining the world's elite badminton players and who better to learn from than newly crowned Olympic men's singles champion Viktor Axelsen?

One month after Tokyo 2020, Loh now finds himself in Dubai after Axelsen invited him, along with four other players in the men's top 60, to train with the Dane at his new base at the Nad Al Sheba Sports Complex for a month.

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