Carolina Marín He recently announced that starting in 2026 he would isolate himself from social networks. The badminton champion recognized that she needs disconnect and leave their profiles to focus on recovering their best personal version now that they are going through difficult times. Although he highlighted the support received after this announcement, the news shows the difficulties that often cross the sportsmen exposed to the vision of the world through the internet.
More and more athletes have had to leave their social networks or those who simply decided not to show their personal lives on the social showcase. Insults and criticism proliferate regularly and have reached the point of directly affecting the personal psychological health of athletes.
In recent times this has been the trend and there are many athletes from different disciplines who have turned off the button on their social networks.
Easy insults or public ridicule have been the common denominator for many footballers to say ‘enough’. Most of them due to specific sporting failures that cost them dearly due to the public exposure to which they are subjected.
This is the case of players like Nico Williams after his failure in the semifinal against Osasuna in 2022 or that of Pablo Maffeo after losing the Cup final with Mallorca against Athletic. Victor Muñoz He also had to do the same after a Clásico last season and even Kirian Rodriguez for his supposed poor performance with Las Palmas.
These are some of the most recent cases, although the difficult situations that players like Tchouaméni, Simone Zaza, Ian Mackay or himself Thierry Henry for quite similar events.
The beautiful sport is not the only one that has seen how some of its protagonists have to say goodbye to their social profiles. These extremely serious cases also affect athletes from other disciplines such as athletics. It is worth remembering the tennis player Paula Badosawho decided to get away from so much noise for a while. The decision of LeBron Jameswho got tired of the negativity of the media on the networks.
Ana Peleteiro she did the same when she was fed up with racist insults and so did the basketball player Silvia Dominguez decided to close his profile X considering it already a toxic social network. The pattern repeats and Carolina Marín She has been the last to put her foot on the wall in a situation complex to which it is urgent to find a solution.
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