In the coming years, it will be a trivial question for rival Dennis Bergkamp, named after Denis Law.
Gold medal-winning Danish cyclist Michael Mørkøv, who together with Lasse Norman Hansen won the Madison on Saturday, names his son after a co-top-of-the-podium Olympian: badminton player Viktor Axelsen.
The 36-year-old confirmed to DR that “there will be a Viktor in December and he is named after him who won a gold medal a week ago”.
Morkøv also named his first son after an ‘Olympian’ – no not fellow cyclist Frederik Rodenberg Madsen, which caused a storm when he blamed a British cyclist for a crash in the semi-finals of the pursuit, but Crown Prince Frederik, Denmark’s representative on the International Olympic Committee.
The spirit of Axelsen forced them on
“I have found enormous inspiration to see Viktor Axelsen during the Olympics. I have seen his badminton matches with great joy and seen how he has swept his opponents off the field, “Morkøv explained.
“In each of the 50km in the final, the only thing I thought about was being as cool as him when he played his final. It was us and we also won with the last serve. ”
In response, Axelsen took to Twitter to write: “A gigantic honor and completely wild. Michael and Lasse are the governors. ”
Norway from nowhere
But while Mørkøv and Hansen got Denmark flying on Saturday, the Danish men’s handball team could not match their heroism in the final and lost 23-25 to France, and that meant that Denmark finished behind their Scandinavian cousins in the last medal table.
With two golds last weekend, Norway drove past both Denmark and Sweden to finish at the top. It was a huge improvement for the Winter Olympics specialists Norway when they became number 74 in 2016.
Sweden meanwhile finished two places above Denmark with the same number of gold but more silver, and Finland 85th with only two bronzes.
Shaded by other Scandis
For Denmark, it was a 25th place with three gold, four silver and four bronzes an improvement on its 28th, 30th and 30th place in the previous three matches.
But while Denmark now boasts the world’s best men’s badminton player in Viktor Axelsen, it has been overshadowed by Norway’s athletics on the track (men 400 meters hurdles in new world record and 1,500 meters in an Olympic best) and Sweden’s robustness in the field (men’s discus and pole vault ).
And it only gets worse at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February next year!