{"id":3365,"date":"2026-04-21T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:39:01","slug":"back-injury-ends-career-badminton-star-viktor-axelsen-retires-from-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/back-injury-ends-career-badminton-star-viktor-axelsen-retires-from-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Injury Ends Career: Badminton Star Viktor Axelsen Retires from Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two-time Olympic champion, 32, says competing at world-class level now \u2018extremely difficult\u2019 after recent injury<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surprising everyone, world badminton star and two-time Olympic champion from Denmark, Viktor Axelsen, has suddenly announced his retirement from badminton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The athlete is currently only 32 years old. Announcing his retirement, he stated that due to a recent back injury, he has realized that continuing to compete in world-class badminton has become extremely difficult for him. Consequently, he has made the decision to retire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Axelsen\u2019s exit marks the end of an era in men\u2019s singles. The Dane won gold at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and held the world No. 1 ranking for a record stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Olympic champion, 32, says competing at world-class level now \u2018extremely difficult\u2019 after recent injury&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}