Rudy makes history: First basketball player to play six games

Rudy FernandezCaptain of the ship. choice The Spaniard took office this Saturday when he took part in a match at the Olympic Games. Paris 2024 His team will play against Australia. Pierre Mauroy From Villeneuve d’Ascq, a suburb of Lille, he became the first basketball player in history to compete in six Olympic Games.

RudyThe 39-year-old will reach 264 international caps this Saturday and will retire at the end of the match. gamedid not jump onto the stadium’s parquet floor. reel Even though he was in the starting five, he did it during the first quarter of the game.

The Balearic forward has taken part in all the great successes of the “family” and has a formidable international record: two world titles (2006 and 2019) and four European titles (2009, 2011 and 2015 – precisely on home soil in Lille in the group stage, in this Olympic tournament and again in 2022). To this must be added the continental silver medal (Spain in 2007) and bronze medal (2013).

At the Paris Games, there will be another athlete to achieve the same milestone in the women’s division, American bassist Diana Taurasialso looking to complete a sixth Games in pursuit of a sixth gold medal.