Normally it takes a royal wedding or a visit from President Barack Obama, to get the American TV station CNN to visit Denmark. Wednesday they were in Denmark only because of badminton. They are here to make a feature about the Danish men’s double Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen.
“The program is called ‘from human to hero,’ and it’s about trying to find out what makes a world top sports athlete also we want to get to know the real person and not the athlete,” Francesca Church, who is the journalist behind, says.
The reason that the Danish men’s double has drawn CNN’s attention towards Denmark is their performance at the Olympics last year. Here the won silver medal after a fantastic performance in the semifinal.
“With Boe and Mogensen we will try to focus on why they are so good together and how that makes a world class men’s double,” Francesca Church says.