SOLIDARITY - Players' Shirts out for Auction

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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:51

Jonas Rasmussen has started a set of auctions to sell top players' shirts to give to the French-based organisation "Doctors without Borders". The first two shuttlers to have given their own shirts are Camilla Martin, the Danish legend, World Champion in 1999, and Malaysia's Wong Choong Hann, who recently played in the final of the Macau Open last week. For Rasmussen, launching this idea came up two years ago, but time was a problem until now where tools like e-bay and Facebook make it easier to manage.

"I´ve collected some t-shirts from several international badmintonstars a couple of years ago with my good friend Thomas Laybourn. Already then, the purpose was to sell them and give all the money away to charity. I didn´t have time untill now and using EBay & Facebook is an easy way to reach a lot of badmintonfans throughout the world. So I just thought now is the right time to do so.

I´ve decided that the money from the auctions will all go to Doctors Without Borders. It´s an international humanitarian organization, which gives emergency aid to victims from conflicts and disasters all over the world. They help wherever it´s most needed regardless of sex, race, religion or political view.

I do think this is a good cause because in the modern day world we face many dangers that have no borders. The H1N1-virus is just the most recent of such a threat. I hope people will join me in this cause and bid for the t-shirts.

Right now two t-shirts are up for grabs, but I have t-shirts from: Peter Gade, Flandy Limpele, Eng Hian, Jens Eriksen, Martin Lundgaard, Rikke Olsen, Rexy Mainaky(as England coach) & myself. Hopefully I can collect more t-shirts......"

Here are the links to the t-shirts from Wong Choon Hann & Camilla Martin:

For Camilla Martin's shirt, click HERE

For Wong Choong Hann's shirt, click HERE

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