Historical. At 43, Lauren Jackson will compete in her fifth Olympic Games at the end of the month. She appears in the Australian basketball team, the Opals, unveiled by the national Olympic committee. Five Olympic Games, the performance is already extremely rare in a team sport. But Lauren Jackson gives it an additional polish by the time gap between her participations. The Australian interior was indeed a silver medalist at the Sydney 2000 Games, at the age of 19, then again at the Athens 2004 Games (silver), Beijing 2008 (silver), and London 2012 (bronze), where she was flag bearer of the delegation at the opening ceremony. Her last participation in an Olympic tournament was twelve years ago. A record. Lauren Jackson retired from sports in 2016 due to a knee injury. She returned to the court in 2022, at her hometown club Albury, New South Wales. The same year, she was recalled to the national team for the 2022 World Cup in Australia.
