MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish badminton player Carolina Marín has acknowledged that “every day” she thinks about the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, after missing those in Tokyo due to a serious injury to her left knee, and has assured that she tries to “get positive things out” of what happened and that she is “encouraged” with the recovery.
Marín was this Sunday one of the outstanding protagonists of the Women’s Race in Madrid, sponsoring the event and joining the solidarity cause of the ‘pink tide’ that flooded the Spanish capital with 18,000 participants, a figure somewhat lower than previous years for guarantee sanitary security measures. The Huelva-born woman formed the Santander team together with the former handball player Eli Pinedo and the presenter Anne Igartiburi.
The Olympic champion assured that she continues to recover from the injury to be able to make up for her absence in Tokyo in Paris. “I am one of those who always try to get positive things out of difficult things or the obstacles that lie in front of us. Although it is true that it was a very hard injury because it happened to me just under two months before the Tokyo Olympics 2020, the positive, in my way of seeing things, is that the next Games are only two and a half years away, therefore I have very little left and I really want Paris to arrive, “he stressed.
“Since I knew that my knee was broken, both the crusader and the two menisci, my head could no longer think of Tokyo and, therefore, every day I think of Paris 2024 and my goal is to get another medal of gold, “he continued.
The three-time world champion and five-time European champion acknowledged that she is “in pretty good spirits” after four and a half months of recovery. “Although I know that I still have enough left, I am encouraged. I go little by little, seeing sensations of how my knee is doing and waiting for the moment to compete again. I have no date to return. It is until the body says and above all that the knee is ready, “he said.
Marín, Banco Santander’s ambassador, encouraged them to face the challenge of traveling the 7.2 kilometers of the test that Eli Pinedo and Ane Igartiburi were in charge of completing together with the other women in favor of breast cancer research and other initiatives solidarity centered on women. The race, which for this edition moved its exit to Serrano Street (between Jorge Juan and Recoletos streets), again had its goal in the Paseo de Camoens, within the Parque del Oeste, crossing places such as the Puerta de Alcalá, the Cibeles or the Plaza León.
“Thank you very much to all the runners for their participation in a race that means so much to us women. Thank you for your presence and above all for enjoying this wonderful and beautiful race. For me it is a pleasure to have been able to be here giving my support”, Marín concluded.
Banco Santander, sponsor of the test, delivered this Sunday the Sustainable Sports Event Seal to the Women’s Race, an initiative of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and Santander that aims to value and differentiate those sporting events in which they are undertaken actions that promote sustainable development and raise awareness in Spanish society through sporting events.