These are not easy days for Carolina Marín. The badminton star has suffered a severe personal setback that occurred hours before her badminton Spain Master semifinal match, which took place last Saturday in Madrid and in which she was defeated by her rival, the Indonesian player Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, by 10-21, 21-15 and 21-10. The natural athlete from Huelva has broken before her virtual community to tell the pain that was after that hard confrontation and the reason was the death of his dog Thaironwhom he adopted with his partner just two and a half months ago.
The Olympic champion, who will be three decades old next June, has made a great effort to explain what happened. She has done it visibly affected and through a video in which she has recorded herself looking at the camera and recounting the hard moment she is going through, with subtitles included. As she has revealed herself, He found out what happened just a few hours before the game“My team and my family decided to tell me the news because I needed to know it somehow”: “He was hit by a car and died on the spot,” he recounted with tears welling up in his eyes..
With several photos of the dog, a gray and white American Stafford with an angelic face, in the background with which she remembers the beautiful moments that she gave her in recent weeks, Carolina has lamented to her fans the painful loss, for which she continues “to be devastated “:”It has been a very important loss for me because I had grown very fond of it. in such a short time”, she said, while speaking of the fear she felt of returning to her home and noticing her absence, something that is very complicated for her.
In her heartbreaking testimony, the player also made reference to her role at the Gallur Municipal Sports Center last Saturday, where she had to make a bigger effort than usual, something that crossed the screen. One of the reasons why she decided to do it, as she has confessed, is because she, despite the fact that she did not feel prepared, “I knew that many people had come to the pavilion to see me”, since the confrontation was disputed in Madrid. “My whole family was supporting me and that’s why I wanted to make that extra effort, but, after all, when you’re not emotionally well or don’t feel ready, that block came out during the game.”
Caroline, what She is living this moment surrounded by her boyfriend, has also said that he thought a lot about Thairon during that semifinal, something he will continue to do forever, and that he knows that his star will shine in the sky along with his father’s. Fortunately, she has already been able to say goodbye to the one who has been her faithful squire since she adopted him from a kennel in Córdoba at the beginning of the year. “Thairon is 16 months old and had already been in the cage for a year… He came to be with a family, but they returned him to the kennel and, since then, he began to suffer the problems of living in a cage. Although he is still a bit sick, soon he will fully recover and he will be able to live as he deserves”, wrote the Huelva woman the day he introduced him to his fans as “a new member of the family”.
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Although he is aware that it will not be easy, Carolina prepares to compete this week in the Orleans Master, where he hopes to return to fully enjoy his passion, badminton. “I will try to gain all the strength possible to face a new tournament”, he pointed out, while thanking the amount of messages full of love and support that his family has already received “for not having left me alone at any time”.
Like we’ve never seen before! Carolina Marín, in a bikini enjoying a paradisiacal vacation
