Rudy Fernandezcaptain of Selection Spanish, became this Saturday, entering the field of play in the match of the Olympic tournament of the Games of Paris 2024 who faces his team against Australia, at Pierre Mauroy of Villeneuve d’Ascq -outside Lille-. He became the first basketball player in history to participate in six Olympic Games.
Rudy39 years old, who on Saturday reached his 264th international cap and retired after Gamesnot jump on the pitch in the stadium Lille in the starting five, but he did it in the first quarter of the match.
The Balearic forward has participated in all the great successes of ‘The Family’, with a formidable international record: two world titles (2006 and 2019) and four European titles (2009, 2011, 2015 – certainly in Lille, headquarters of the group stage in this Olympic tournament – and 2022). To which we must add a continental silver (in Spain, in 2007) and a bronze (2013).
In this Paris Games there will be another player to achieve the same milestone, in the women’s category, the American base Diana Taurasiwhich is also seeking to complete a sixth Games where it is seeking a sixth gold.
Source: La Verdad
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