Paris: Roger Federer announced Monday he will compete at next year’s Tokyo Olympics in a bid to win the men’s singles gold medal, the only major prize he has yet to obtain.
“I’ve been debating with my team for a few weeks now, months actually, what I should do in the summer time (of 2020) after Wimbledon and before the US Open,” Federer said at a promotional event organised in Tokyo. “At the end of the day my heart decided to play the Olympic Games again.”
The Swiss 38-year-old competed in the first of four Olympic Games at Sydney in 2000 and won the doubles gold partnering Stan Wawrinka in 2008 and a silver medal in singles in 2012. He missed the 2016 Olympics due to a knee injury.
“I carried the flag twice for Switzerland in Athens and Beijing, I’ve got a gold and a silver medal, and I would love to play again at the Olympics so I’m very excited,” Federer, who would 39 years of age during the Tokyo Olympics,” added.
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