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NHAT NGUYEN HAS lost his third Olympic match to defending Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen and is out of Paris 2024.
The Dublin badminton player went out in two sets 21-13, 21-10 after a brave battle against the Danish star.
The 24-year-old had a difficult task in a winner-take-all match, as both competitors had won their previous two rounds of Group P.
Nguyen’s third game took place in Port de la Chapelle Arena in the northwest of Paris in front of a crowd of 8,000.
Axelsen, 30, went into the competition as world number two. He won gold in Tokyo in 2021, and was bronze medalist at the Rio Olympic Games eight years ago.
Nguyen’s Olympics has seen his own star rise after two wins against Nepal’s Prince Dahal and Israel’s Misha Zilberman.
Speaking before the game, the Clarehall man had admitted he was up against it, having lost to Axelsen the last two times they had face each other.
“If I walk out there like the last two times I played him, I have no chance,” he said. “I feel fit and strong and my confidence is high. I really feel I’ve put in the work, physically and mentally, and I’m just going to go in and totally give it my all.”
Written by Sinead O’Carroll and originally published on The 42 whose award-winning team produces original content that you won’t find anywhere else: on GAA, League of Ireland, women’s sport and boxing, as well as our game-changing rugby coverage, all with an Irish eye. Subscribe here.
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Ah Mr burns, will you ever learn.
@Paddy Ryan:
@Conor Byrne: haha. Love it.
At 92 let me wish him & his fiancé many weeks of happiness.
Surprised she’s not younger to be honest
This guy must be a right sap when it comes to women. Would ya be bothered
New season of Succession?!
shes def with him for the looks and his seriously good bedroom action I am completely sure….not the whole filthy rich and praying he pops his clogs soon. Although theres so much greed, corruption and poison in this lad, he makes Monty Burns from the simpsons look like Mary Poppins
Only engaged 6 times at 82…. He hasn’t lived
Automatically think of Caroline Ahernes famous interview with Debbie McGee when I read stuff like this
@denis silver: Ditto! “And what was it that first attracted you to multi-millionaire Paul Daniels?”
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: was he successful when they met?
@Clare Power: Yep. He had a primetime BBC TV show. She was his assistant.
Another sleazy older rich (((man)))
He should marry his only true love… himself
I’ll give it 8 yrs, max.
@Brian Murphy: that brings him to the century mark and herself to three quarters of it.
Short term work with profitable interest.
It’s the Power of love
@Patrick Presley: a force from above!
What a catch!
Drain the swamp of all the natural inhabitants and let the Great Orange Baracuda have his reign of terror
67? Where’s he going marrying an auld wan like that?
Ah stop… he’s not well in the head
His marriages were NOt ENDURABLE. He’ll have to STRIVE harder with this lady.
Ah fair play to him, we’re all only jealous.
She says its not his money, it’s his good looks and charm that swept her off feet
@K H: she should go to specsavers.
A vile legacy of bigotry and propaganda Is all there is to this yoke
That is surely the victory of optimism over experience
A pig.
Got to love the irony of announcing this on International Women’s Day……
@John Moylan: The rest of us weren’t exactly queuing up to spend time with him, I can assure you.
Good luck to her!
Married the MONEY and asked him to the Wedding ….
Rupie once again puts his money where his mouth should b
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