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Mexican badminton player Luis Ramon Garrido bumped into China’s twice goal medallist Lin Dan in the Paris Olympic Village on Friday, rekindling memories of his harrowing journey since the pair last met in the years before the Rio 2016 Olympics. Garrido was ranked inside the top 50 in the world and qualified for Rio but then he did not play competitive badminton for four years after a kidney disease and eight knee surgeries. “I almost lost my life in 2015,” the 28-year-old told the Olympic news service on Saturday. “I got an illness called rhabdomyolysis. It’s like I was losing the kidneys. The…

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