A shock went through badmintonverdenen. In september, it emerged that Lee Chong Wei has næsekræft and has received treatment since July.
the Fight against cancer has been particularly harsh and tough for the triple WORLD and OLYMPIC silver in the men’s singles.
he tells This in an interview with the malaysian newspaper The Star.
Here evinces badmintonstjernen, how he got the terrible message to know, shortly after his participation at the Indonesia Open in July.
– My wife received a call from the doctor at 11.30. I was not really paying attention as I rested after a tiresome workout in the morning.
I was about to take my badmintontaske on and ready to take home. I asked Mew Choo (Lee Chong Weis wife, red.), the doctor had called. She came towards me, hugged me and cried. I knew it was bad news. It is næsekræft, she told me.
– I lost my badmintontaske, and I wept also. I sunk down in the couch, cried, and asked why it had hit me. My mother also found out of it, and she hugged me and wept too, says Lee Chong Wei to The Star.
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Lee Chong Wei at a press conference in the month of november. Photo: AP
It took a long time for Lee Chong Wei to accept that he was now struck by cancer. Therefore, it was also his wife, which led the word in the first conversations with the doctors. Lee Chong Wei was simply so shocked.
the Doctors asked him if he would have an additional assessment of his illness. It thanked badmintonstjernen “no thanks” to. He’d just started with treatment as soon as possible.
He went through much of his treatment in Taiwan at the invitation of a good friend. Here he had a very hard course of treatment.
– I went through 33 sessions of protonbehandling, and it was a nightmare.
– I could not speak or eat, says Lee Chong Wei.
even Though he’s still struggling with his cancer, so think the 36-year-old Lee Chong Wei still on the comeback of the utmost badmintonscene. He was most recently in action at the Indonesia Open in July.
He has a specific goal, which he would like to achieve, before he stops his career – the OLYMPIC games in 2020 in Tokyo.
– No athlete in Malaysia has ever competed at five olympic games, and I will make history. It is not easy to be at five olympic games, it is the 20 years, says Lee Chong Wei.
Lee Chong Wei has for many years been known as the chinese men’s singles legend Lin Dance fanatical rival. They have faced each other in a number of finals, where Lee Chong Wei has lost the vast majority.
Lin Dan has won two WORLD cup finals and two OLYMPICS-finals of Lee Chong Wei.
In the course of his career, has the malaysian badminton player won 69 titles – but no WORLD cup or the OLYMPICS.
In 2015 gave Lee Chong Wei a eight months long dopingkarantæne. He delivered a positive dopingprøve during the WORLD cup in Ballerup, denmark in 2014. He had, however, already play 1. may 2015, when the quarantine applied retroactively.
Badminton – 22. sep. 2018 – at. 10:02 Verdensstjernen keep away: Have cancer in the nose
