YONEX ALL ENGLAND VIDEO - Thomas Laybourn Gets Creative

Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:09

Video Interview by Raphael Sachetat. Text by Mark Phelan, live exclusively at Birmingham. The reigning world mixed doubles champion Thomas Laybourn from Denmark has gone to extreme measures to try and fund and find sponsors in an effort to maintain his badminton career. The Danish veteran, who along with Kamilla Juhl took gold in Hyderabad last year, has found it increasingly difficult to attract sponsors as the European economy continues to contract. Laybourn's creative pursuit, however, failed to get the nod from the referee at the centennial All England competition, who had deemed the logo to be unworthy and unsuitable for the tournament. The referee allowed Laybourn to use the logo on day one as the Danish world champion had no other attire to wear but warned the player that the shirt with the logo would not be allowed on court any subsequent days.  Laybourn shares his views and thoughts on the controversy with Badzine in an exclusive video interview. Add your comments Comments Search RSS Only registered users can write comments! Powered by !JoomlaComment 3.26 3.26 Copyright (C) 2008 Compojoom.com / Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved." Newer news items: Popularising the All England YONEX ALL ENGLAND SF - Is This to be Lee Chong Wei’s Year? YONEX ALL ENGLAND QF - Gade Ends Taufik's All England Dream YONEX ALL ENGLAND QF - Tine Back From the Brink YONEX ALL ENGLAND Round 2 - Schenk sets the Tone Older news items: Badminton in Guinness Book of World Records YONEX ALL ENGLAND VIDEO - Joachim Persson: "I'm not focusing on the results" YONEX ALL ENGLAND Round 1 - Paaske/Rasmussen prevail in battle of the veterans YONEX DUTCH JUNIOR - Dutch Duos don’t Disappoint YONEX ALL ENGLAND VIDEO - Taufik Hidayat: "It's very difficult to get the All-England title" << Previous pageNext page >>