Carolina Marín: Support & Beliefs

Carolina Marín has decided to leave social networks. “I have collapsed,” said the Olympic badminton champion in Rio 2016. She is not the first athlete or the first public figure to decide to take this measure in a world of disrespectful comments, many of them under the unpunished mantle of those who do not show their faces when they express certain criticisms. Marín is not going through his best moment, neither physically nor emotionally. Seriously injured in one knee when she was about to secure a new podium at the Paris Games, she is working to play again, although surely not at the level she showed for years. The demands of high competition are enormous, and the athletes’ moments must be respected. They are not machines, and precisely when they need the most help is when they are not at their best. Recently there was also the case of Barcelona player Ronald Araújo, who has taken time to stop and overcome his anxiety problems. Exposing it to cure it only deserves applause.