LONDON.- The British tennis player Andy Murray37 years old, said this Sunday that he was not “100% sure” of participating in Paris in his fifth Olympic Gamesdespite the fact that it was announced hours before by the British Olympic Committee (BOA, for its acronym in English).
“I’m not 100% sure. It will depend on how I am physically. For now my plan is to play, but it’s not definitive,” said Murray, dressed in the British Olympic team’s clothing, on the sidelines of the Queen’s tournament.
Murray, who is the only tennis player to have won two consecutive gold medals (at London 2012 and Rio 2016), was announced in the British tennis team along with Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans.
“We will see what happens in the next ten days. I hope to be lucky enough to be able to play with Evo,” he added in reference to the possibility of playing doubles with Evans.
Katie Boulter will represent the United Kingdom in the women’s draw, while Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski will play in doubles.
Murray is currently ranked 97th in the ATP rankings and has hinted that he will retire in the coming months.
Scare at the Euro:
The police in Hamburg, Germany, said on Sunday that they had shot to subdue a man who was threatening to attack law enforcement with a pickaxe and a Molotov cocktail in the city where the Euro Cup match he faced was going to be played. to the Netherlands and Poland.
However, “there is no element that indicates any link with football” and the match, which ended with a 2-1 Dutch victory, a spokesman for the local police, Thilo Marxsen, told AFP.
For a reason still unknown, “the attacker left a cafeteria and threatened the police officers,” he added. The security forces ended up shooting and “injuring him in the leg,” the spokesperson added.
Later, the police issued a statement to insist on “the lack of elements that demonstrate a relationship between this event and the Euro Cup.”
Source: AFP
