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Two and a half months ago, Carolina Marín‘s life took a path that no one, least of all her, could have expected. A knee injury kept her from the Olympic dream of Paris 2024 and on August 7 she entered the operating room to undergo surgery and kick off the challenge of full recovery, something that she is handling much better than I expected when everything happened. “I am very happy with how my progress is going, about how my knee is, how I’m feeling, very happy, to be honest,” she explained to us with a smile at the premiere of the new ‘WAH’ show space in Madrid.
But not everything is so pretty, logically both the operation and the recovery are unpleasant processes that I would prefer not to have to experience. Furthermore, they have not occurred at the best moment of his life, because apart from what his withdrawal from the Olympic Games meant, a competition for which he had been preparing for years, On a personal level he also experienced turbulent times, Well, Vanitatis can confirm that last summer Carolina broke up with her boyfriend and was processing her new reality.
It was she herself who introduced her partner on social media, Gen Esteban San Millánan athlete who is part of the Real Sociedad athletics team. The moment in which they began their relationship is unknown, but this medium has been able to confirm that for a time the two were very excited about their love and He became very integrated into her family.
In fact, in the spring of 2023, after winning the Orleans Masters and suffering the loss of the dog she had adopted only three months before, Carolina and Gen traveled to her homeland, to Huelva, to live a few days of rest, and then we could see him sitting next to her large family enjoying a delicious paella.
But a year later the situation was no longer so idyllic and The last time they were seen together was precisely on another trip to the south in April of this year. Carolina took a week off to enjoy her pilgrimage and celebrate her seventh gold in the European Badminton Championship, in Saarbrücken 2024. After those days in Huelva they did not share anything together again, he has not been with her in Paris nor the rest of the summer and, in fact, his social media account is no longer active.
The exact date they went their separate ways is unknown, but on June 15, her birthday, Gen was no longer by her side. We won’t see him this Friday either, when Marín receives her Princess of Asturias Sports award. Carolina, furthermore, has deleted the images from their networks that he had shared of the two of them together.
Carolina wanted to be very discreet in this regard, she focused on preparing for the Games and then she did so on her recovery, in which her family is playing a fundamental role and she is being able to enjoy moments that she would never have otherwise vivid. “On the outside it is better than on the inside, inside the process is a little slower, But seeing that I am advancing on the outside makes me feel better emotionally,” he said in the aforementioned conversation.
“I’m enjoying it from another perspective, to be more with my family, to make other types of plans that if I had been training I would not have been able to do and well, other types of things,” he explained as he passed through the photocall. Seeing her at parties and presentations is not very common, because as she explains, she normally spends many hours training.
However, it now also has its sights set on and future without racket, which does not mean, by any means, that he is thinking of leaving her, but he wants to walk other paths: “I have things ahead of me, I am starting new projects and dedicating time to other things, for example give talks in companieswhich is a path that I wanted to start taking in my life… I already have several, It’s a path that I really wanted to take and I’m going to start doing it,” she explained, without denying her concern about the novelty. “I’m nervous because I like to do things well and motivate and help others through my way of doing things.” my life and my experience is a challenge,” he pointed out.
So Marín has new goals ahead of him, a recovery process that it is going better than she herself had expected and she really wants to move forward, seeing the positive side of everything that she cannot control, including her breakup. Well, even without a partner, there is no doubt that He has a huge family that is being his great support. at this moment when the earth has shaken a little under his feet.
Two and a half months ago, Carolina Marín’s life took a path that no one, least of all her, could have expected. A knee injury kept her from the Olympic dream of Paris 2024 and on August 7 she entered the operating room to undergo surgery and kick off the challenge of full recovery, something that she is handling much better than I expected when everything happened. “I am very happy with how my progress is going, about how my knee is, how I’m feeling, very happy, to be honest,” she explained to us with a smile at the premiere of the new ‘WAH’ show space in Madrid.
