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He came to the Olympic Games Rio 16 with the intention of climbing to the top of the podium: "I will not sign any medal other than gold."
The forcefulness to the press of Carolina Marin on arrival at the Olympic Village surprised many but onubense, enlisted in the ranks of the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), it was clear what he said.
In the end he stood without dropping a single set but in the final game would have to overcome many problems to win the Olympic gold.
And that seemed the shock was when 19 to 16 was put on track in the first race but there appeared the best version of its rival, the Indian Sindhu Pusarla with a partial 0-5 could be the first round.
Far from sinking by the lost opportunity, Carolina Marin drew the anger and pride that had already been winning the European and World and Pusarla passed over in the second set (21-12).
The third set was more even.
To step interval, Marin had only one point lead (11-10) but right there showed his best version and a recital in attack and in defense disarmed Pusarla, who arrived physically much fairer to the stretch, and He sentenced the match.
Carolina Marin and makes history in a sport with little tradition in Spain getting an Olympic gold in a discipline traditionally dominated by Asian countries.
Full in canoeing and abandonment of Miguel Angel Lopez in 50 km walk
In addition, the day has left the good news in canoeing classification of Saul Craviotto in K1 200 and K4 Javier Hernanz in 1000 for the late morning so they will be in the fight for medals.
The negative note of the day came in the 50 km walk with the abandonment of Miguel Angel Lopez.
Murcia athlete, who was eleventh in the test 20 kilometers of last week, left last kilometer 40 after having given everything on the asphalt of Rio de Janeiro.
Source: UCAM
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