SUZUKA.- The seven-time world champion Formula 1, Lewis Hamiltonassured on Thursday that at 41 years old he is fitter than all his much younger rivals, after a catastrophic 2025 season for the British.
“I know that none of the drivers I race against train or give themselves the way I do, especially at my age,” he declared to the press at the Suzuka circuit, venue this weekend of the Japanese F1 Grand Prix.
At this start of the season, after two Grand Prix in Australia (Melbourne) and Shanghai (China), the Ferrari of Hamilton and the Monegasque Charles Leclerc They are in the second line, behind the mercedes from the british George Russell and his young Italian companion Kimi Antonelli.
Hamilton, with a brilliant track record at Mercedes prior to his arrival in 2025 at the ‘Scuderia’, finished in third position in China, his first podium with Ferrari.
Hamilton assured that he hopes to “continue showing” what he is capable of and that he trains “every time harder”, declaring that he has “ran on foot for nearly 100 km in Tokyo” since his arrival for the Japanese GP.
“I love that, that impulse that pushes me (…) the involvement is there, more than ever,” the Briton insisted, smiling.
“I give absolutely everything I have to that challenge” of fighting for the 2026 championship, he concluded.
Olympic champion retires
The Spanish badminton player Carolina MarinOlympic champion in Rio 2016, announced this Thursday her retirement from sports at the age of 32, two years after suffering the third serious knee injury of her career at the Paris Games.
“My path in professional badminton has ended and therefore I will not participate in the European (Championship) in Huelva,” the Huelva native declared in a video, a week and a half before the continental championship in her hometown.
“I wanted us to see each other for the last time on a court, but I don’t want to put my body at risk for it (…) I would like my end as a player to have been different, but in life it doesn’t always happen the way we want it to and we have to accept it,” continued Marín, the only non-Asian player to have won gold since badminton became an Olympic sport in Barcelona 1992.
