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Racketlon World Championships 2019

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Here it is, a tad late yes I know, but I am finally writing my post about the 2019 Racketlon World Championships which took place in Leipzig in November. Just quickly going to go through the basic principle of racketlon for any unaware readers: very simply you play the four sports of table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis one after another, all up to 21 and whoever gets the most points across them wins! Now I had zero clue what to expect from this experience, apart from the obvious that I may have to pick up a couple of rackets in the duration of my time there. So, in the relatively early hours of a Tuesday morning I made my way from Humberside to Amsterdam to Berlin, and in that time made sure I submitted an RE essay about evangelism. My first encounter of a GB teammate came at Berlin Tegel Airport.  As I was waiting, very anxiously may I say, for that racket bag to be in luggage collection I met a fellow U21 team player, Cherisse,  the first of quite a few people I can safely