On July 17, Beijing time, the Denmark Badminton Association officially announced that mixed doubles player Christiansen voluntarily withdrew from the Paris Olympics for doping violations, and then the World Badminton Federation officially confirmed that Christiansen and his partner Bol were removed from the Paris Olympics Badminton Mixed Doubles Group C.
According to the Anti-Doping Agency, athletes are required to report their whereabouts every day for three months before the start of the Olympic Games. In the event of three cases of non-reporting, the Anti-Doping Agency may investigate the entire team to which the athlete belongs. According to the Denmark Badminton Association's announcement, Christiansen inadvertently omitted to report his whereabouts and caused the violation, and in order to avoid implicating other teammates, he chose to voluntarily withdraw from the Paris Olympics to avoid the Denmark delegation being the subject of investigation by the anti-revivals agency.
The BWF confirmed that no team will take their place at the Paris Olympics as Christiansen/Bol withdrew after the draw was made. Christiansen/Bol will have three remaining teams in Group C who will compete for two places in the group to advance to the last eight. The remaining three teams in Group C are Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino of Japan, Ye Hongwei/Li Jiaxin of Chinese Taipei, and Tang Chun Man/Tse Ying Xue of Hong Kong. Group C, which was originally highly competitive, was much easier due to the withdrawal of Christiansen/Bor, but because the difference in strength between the three teams is not large, there is still a possibility that the "chain set" will have to calculate small points to determine the promotion place.
Christiansen, 30, 1.86 meters tall, is a badminton men's doubles player from Denmark. Christiansen, who focused on men's doubles earlier in his career, won the 2016 Thomas Cup team event with Denmark, his only world title to date. He then teamed up with Patisson, a silver medallist in women's doubles at Rio 2016, before switching his focus to mixed doubles, where the pair peaked at No. 4 in the world. After Petiterin's retirement from international competition, Christian Sen partnered with Bol, who won the mixed doubles title at the 2023 Singapore Open.