Carolina Marín receives an unexpected award
Carolina Marín, badminton player, has learned that she will receive the Princess of Asturias Sports Award 2024. The athlete who received the news while training said: “I had to stop training and I started crying.” The Olympic champion has spoken to the media from the CSD.
Carolina Marín: “I don’t know where to start, because I don’t have enough words. Say thank you. Thanks to the jury for thinking of me. It’s a dream. Several years ago, I talked about it with my mother and members of my team. She dreamed about it. Today it has become reality. “I am grateful and very excited.”
Carolina Marín
Carolina Marín fulfills another dream
The badminton player adds another triumph to her record with this award. Carolina Marín has acknowledged: “My mother told me that she deserved this award. Several years ago, through the Huelva press, they nominated my candidacy, but I couldn’t get it.” Furthermore, she highlighted: “While training, she was focused on something else. “I shed tears and I hugged my physical trainer.”
The Huelva athlete is focused on the next Olympic Games in Paris 2024: “In 2024, a lot can still be asked of her. The first thing I ask for is health. May my body respect me in this little bit that remains until Paris. Now, for asking, we are going to ask for the gold medal, we are not going to ask for the bronze.”
Carolina Marín already knows the Kings of Spain
In 2014, he received an invitation to visit La Zarzuela. The athlete had a private meeting with the Queen about details that she later commented: “She wanted me to go to the palace to give classes to the girls. That has not happened, just by telling me that she wanted her daughters to play badminton made me very excited.
Carolina Marín began her sports career at the IES La Orden Recreational Club in her hometown, in Huelva. At the age of 14, after winning several regional championships, she went to the Madrid High Performance Center. She later won the Olympic gold, at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. She has also been world champion 3 times and European champion 7 times.