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Tien Minh Nguyen of Vietnam returns a shot against Jun Jorgensen of Denmark during the men's singles second round of the Yonex Japan Open badminton tournament in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (
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I only started playing badminton when I came to Ireland... It was one of the ways I tried to fit in'
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I learnt badminton watching games on YouTube: Vietnam's World No 7 Nguyen Tien Minh (pic) - BadmintonPlanet.com
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Vietnam's Nguyen Thuy Linh plays against Switzerland's Sabrina Jaquet during their women's singles group stage badminton match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 28, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara
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