Carolina Marín’s heartfelt hug to smile again more than a year later

eleven months later, Carolina Marín has smiled again. The Spanish player has become, for the sixth consecutive time, in European badminton championsomething that seemed impossible a little less than a year ago when he suffered the rip of the anterior cruciate ligament and the two menisci of the left knee. This Saturday, in Madrid, he returned to the path of victory with his victory against the Scottish Kitty Gilmore and one word is the first that came to his head: gracias.

As soon as the match that made her European champion ended, her tears flooded her face while, lying on her back on the ground, she was unable to repress the emotions that invaded him. As she got up, he ran out to hug his coach, Ferdinand RivasWith which melted into a hug sense in which they said that same word: “Thank you”. And it is that the support of the coach has been fundamental in a very complicated time for the badminton player.

“This championship is dedicated to my entire team and to a special person, my father, who is the only one who has not been able to be“, commented Carolina Marín, remembering the death of her father a few months ago. “We have had a difficult time with the injury and that is why now I want to enjoy. I have very beautiful things ahead of me “, she expressed after her new gold medal, full of emotion and feeling for everything that had happened some time ago.

The Spanish has not had much luck with injuries, where her knees have played several tricks on her: her last physical problem, in fact, he left her without the Olympic Games and without the World Cup. Despite this, Carolina Marín has fought hard, has worked and has decided to return to competition through the front door, as she has confirmed in Madrid. Now, she enjoys the taste of victory again, although along the way she has had to suffer a lot to feel happiness again.

“The gold was to compete again and I have done it. I’m here, I’m back and here we continue. The injury is forgotten. Now my feeling is one of happiness, not only for winning the championship, which is a consequence of what one does, but for all that it means“, he confessed. It is not easy to return to the track after a long-term injury and much less if it is a repeat offender over time, but the Huelva player once again showed that she is made of different stuff.

Carolina Marín wants this victory to be the first of many to come with a clear objective: the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Spanish has shown that she is fully recovered from her physical problems and that she has returned to being competitive, so now all her work is focused on feeling the dynamics on the track again that allow her to have all the mechanisms controlled for make her the dominant player which has been in recent years.

The triumph of the Spanish player It has much merit. Almost a year ago, she was aware that she had to undergo surgery again and, now, she reconfirms that she is the great player that she was, as if time had never passed and that had only been a bad dream. Carolina Marín smiles again and although she knows that some things have changed, she is also aware of what she needs to win again: just give thanks. A hug that shows that union is strength.

eleven months later, Carolina Marín has smiled again. The Spanish player has become, for the sixth consecutive time, in European badminton championsomething that seemed impossible a little less than a year ago when he suffered the rip of the anterior cruciate ligament and the two menisci of the left knee. This Saturday, in Madrid, he returned to the path of victory with his victory against the Scottish Kitty Gilmore and one word is the first that came to his head: gracias.

As soon as the match that made her European champion ended, her tears flooded her face while, lying on her back on the ground, she was unable to repress the emotions that invaded him. As she got up, he ran out to hug his coach, Ferdinand RivasWith which melted into a hug sense in which they said that same word: “Thank you”. And it is that the support of the coach has been fundamental in a very complicated time for the badminton player.