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Spain’s Pau Gasol (4) fights for a rebound with United States’ Jrue Holiday, right, during a men’s basketball quarterfinal round game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aug. 3, in Saitama. (AP Photo)
Two-time NBA champion and three-time Olympic medalist Pau Gasol won an election Wednesday at the Tokyo Games that means he’ll be mixing with royals and representing athletes for the next seven years at the International Olympic Committee.
Gasol was one of 30 candidates who were competing at the ballot box and in their Olympic sports in Tokyo.
He got 1,888 of more than 6,800 votes cast by athletes for the four vacant IOC seats. Polls closed Tuesday, the day Gasol played six minutes in Spain’s 95-81 loss to the United States in the quarterfinals.
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