Paco Ojeda has seen Carolina Marín grow. The badminton coach witnessed her first steps with a racket and a shuttlecock and soon knew that the Huelva native was showing signs of success. All without expecting that the best badminton player in the world would be in the IES La Orden quarry.
At 30 years old, with a gold medal in Rio and a three-time World Champion, Carolina Marín received this Wednesday the Princess of Asturias Sports Awardan award that further highlights the successes he has achieved – and those that remain – in his career as an elite athlete.
“Another gold medal at the Olympic Games wouldn’t hurt,” says Paco Ojeda. The Princess of Asturias Sports Award It is the icing on the cake “of his career and his achievements on an incredible path”but the coach remains “with those first years after leaving Huelva when he began to compete at an international level.”
Carolina “went wherever she went, she surprised her rivals.” “A European player who, surely, at first they would not pay much attention to because, above all, at the female level, because it seemed that we did not play much on the international panorama” of badminton, Paco Ojeda assumes. Even so, the Huelva midfielder “He was always surprising and winning tournaments against rivals much better placed in the world ranking”.
Little by little, he carved out his path and career, “it was surprising year after year until they began to take it seriously and study it”. She “already continued to improve exponentially and those Europeans arrived, those World Cups, that impressive gold medal and she was already where she was.” She no longer went unnoticed.
Carolina Marín will arrive at the Paris Olympic Games with a new dream fulfilled, she has already won the Princess of Asturias Sports Award. Her path “has not been rosy.” Two knee injuries and the death of her father “with whom she was very close” have marked her career..
The volantista “raised it through effort and faith.” “He has clearly shown that he has returned to an incredible level and the demonstration had to come in the form of tournaments and titles” and now he is just three months away from Paris “with every possibility of being able to get another gold.” “Then things will go well or they will go less well because in the end winning a medal depends on very few details and I hope he has the fortune to bring us great joy.” points out the one who was coach of Carolina Marín in her beginnings in badminton.
2024-05-10 03:24:06
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