Pau Gasol hopes to become a five-time Olympian

Pau Gasol talks about the possibility of playing in his fifth Olympic Games.

“I was hoping before everything changed and got postponed, or cancelled, that I was going to have enough time to heal my injury, to get in an appropriate shape to be able to compete and play and still, at 40 years old, play my fifth Olympics this summer in Tokyo,” Gasol said in an interview with the Olympic Channel.

“Now I have more time to recover, but I will have to play competitively in order to get to the summer of 2021 at a high level and be able to compete and help my country, which is not a bad thing.

“But the truth of it is that, in summer 2021, I’ll be 41, which is a challenge.

“It is something that might excite me, being a very challenge-driven person and always very ambitious.

“It is very much still a desire to be able to play my fifth Olympics and potentially that being my very last tournament.”