Mexico City.- Number 8 in the world tennis ranking, Roger Federer is considered to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, as confirmed by the Swiss Olympic Committee this Monday. In addition, the Swiss tennis player will compete with 116 other athletes who will represent Switzerland. But, for the tennis discipline, Federer will be participating together with Viktorija Golubic Y Belinda Bencic of these games that will be organized from July 23 to August 8 of the current year.
On the other hand, the Swiss delegation had already designated 103 athletes classified in different sports and today announced the last selected in tennis, horse riding and swimming, all of which are sports with medal aspirations. The Swiss bring eleven more athletes to the Tokyo Games than in Rio 2016, where they won seven medals, three of them gold, a mark that they at least hope to match in this new edition.
In accordance with ESPN, this will be the fifth time Roger Federer will compete in the Olympic Games, as he participated in the Olympics of Sydney that were held in 2000, and contest on three other occasions, being in the Olympic games of Athens in 2004, Beijing 2008 and on London 2012. For the games of River In 2016 he was not present, because due to a knee injury his absence was very marked for that occasion.
According to the information shared by the EFE agency, the team leader, Ralph Stöckli, during a presentation stated:
“We would have liked to set ourselves a more ambitious goal, but in view of the last 15 months of difficulties that we have all had, and that have shown us the real priorities, it is fairer to seek at least to match the medals of 2016”
After participating in the round of 16 of WimbledonRoger Federer will again seek a first place on the podium at the 2020 Olympic games. Since in 2008 he won a gold medal, while in 2012 he achieved a silver medal.
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