Cuban wrestler Mijaín López confirmed his attendance to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where he will go for his fifth title under the five rings.

Havana, May 23 (Jit).- Cuban wrestler Mijaín López confirmed his attendance to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where he will go for his fifth title under the five rings.

Mijaín, a 130 kg Greco-Roman wrestler, announced the news to the World Wrestling Union through his page in the social network Facebook, in which he highlights that it would be an absolute record for this sport.

"I am returning to wrestle at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. I want to become the first wrestler to win five Olympic gold medals," Lopez told UWW.

No male gladiator has achieved Mijaín's feat under the five rings: four crowns, and in a row from Beijing 2008 to Tokyo 2020 (in 2021).

However, the UWW always warns that the Pinar del Río native tied with Japan's Kaori Icho, who achieved such a feat earlier in the women's style.

Mijaín will be 42 years old in August 2024. Several experts say that age will be his main rival. However, after Tokyo 2020 the Horseshoe Giant has dedicated himself to active rest and training, reserving himself as a "fine rooster" for one competition in the cycle: Paris 2024.