Preparation Lots of tears, the TV off and a hotel room: Carolina Marín's path to the European Championships in Madrid
Semifinals Carolina Marín's European sweet from Madrid: already a finalist after another exhibition
The pains are gone and there are still legs, so why not.
Carolina Marín
's ambition
is to be champion again at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, when she will be 31 years old, and no one can deny her goal.
After her second almost consecutive knee injury, the misfortune that left her without the Tokyo Games, she returned as usual.
In the coming months the Grand Slams of Indonesia and China will come and, above all, the World Cup, but there is already one certainty: it is who she was.
She certified it in Madrid with a European, another, the sixth in a row, and again with an abyss between her and the rest of her.
Already in 2014, when he celebrated his first continental title, he said: "My goal is the World Cup."
Months later he would take that coveted title.
Since then, since that historic takeoff, Marin's place is next to the best Asians and nearby tournaments are a formality.
No one on the continent comes close to his level.
This time, because of the injury, the European meant the end of a long rehabilitation, but nothing more.
In the last six years, he had only lost one match against a European, in October 2020, against the Scottish
Kirsty Gilmour
, and that same opponent confirmed his superiority.
In the final, Marín defeated Gilmour by a solid 21-10 and 21-12.
There was no possibility of another result.
"For me, the gold was to compete again," said Marín at the end of the match and thanked the crowd that packed the Gallur Sports Center in Madrid for their support.
There was emotion in celebrating him, for his recovery and for the memory of his father, who died two years ago after an accident, but also routine.
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