Carolina Marín, another story of improvement through badminton

It goes without saying that football has become the quintessential sport in half the world. This has caused the players themselves to earn millions of dollars with little effort, a fact that sometimes distorts a little the benefits and benefits of sports in general.

However, there are other people who did not share the same fate since its inception. They never had the support of big brands or companies that did not have problems in financing their trips to other points of the planet.

This is the case, for example, of Carolina Marín, one of the most important badminton players in the Spanish scene and who has become a living example of that with effort and tenacity, you can achieve any dream we set.

But as we have explained at the beginning of the article, the beginnings for this athlete from Huelva were not easy at all. From the beginning, our beloved Carolina enrolled in badminton classes for fun. As a way to entertain yourself in those dead hours after school.

Carolina started in badminton for entertainment

Any girl of her age would have signed up for dance, guitar, karate or basketball classes. However, this little girl of just ten years of age wanted to do something different. So neither short nor lazy pointed to classes in that sport that simply consisted "In tapping a plastic pen".

From there, he began to burn stages at an amazing speed. He left his hometown for Madrid to start training in this sport in a professional way that was born of the noblest classes of India in the twentieth century. With just 14 years, a girl with two coletitas arrived from the hands of their parents to Madrid, just to the center of full performance of the hand of Fernando Rivas.

This athlete and grenadian coach was the one who dedicated himself to forge the legend of Carolina. The one that dedicated body and mind to create a champion that still continues to reap successes despite his young age. However, the protagonist of this story also put all their effort and ambition at the time of becoming one of the best badminton players in all history. "I want to be the best in the world. It does not matter how long it takes me. But I want and I think I can be. "

As of 2009, the rise of Carolina Marín was meteoric

Thanks to the great tandem of these two athletes, Carolina Marín began to forge her legend. Already in 2009 she won the title of European Champion June Badminton.

Two years later, it was proclaimed as European player improvement after a tournament that took place in the city of Vantaa in Finland. But it was not until 2014 when Carolina savored the honeys of success. A very young Spanish player managed to beat Li Xuerui, the number one badminton player who came from China, a country in which there are more than 100 million practitioners of this sport of racquetball.

But Marín's exploits did not end here. Far from being intimidated and satisfied with a "simple" world championship, Carolina continued with an unlimited ambition. He got between eyebrows and get gold in the next games in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. So he prepared himself again in the most demanding way with the sole objective of winning the podium in this Olympic event.

Although this road was not easy either: "After finishing the training, I often returned to the residence in a sea of ​​tears due to the demands of this sport. But I never gave up I always knew that all the effort that was behind was going to have its fruits "said Carolina herself.

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And what if he did it, on August 19, 2016, Carolina Marín won the gold medal after a hard and fast match against Pusarla Venkata Sindhu for a result of 9-21, 21-12, 21-15, becoming the first Spanish and Andalusian player in history to win an Olympic medal in this sport.

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