LeBron James selected as one of Team USA’s flag bearers for Opening Ceremony

The ceremony will embrace a parade of boats carrying the athletes over the Seine River, passing iconic landmarks. The route ends throughout from the Eiffel Tower on the Trocadero, the place the ultimate parts of protocol and closing reveals will happen.

James, 39, will compete on the Olympics for the primary time since successful his second gold medal on the 2012 London Video games. 

He’ll tie the U.S. males’s basketball file of 4 Olympic appearances, develop into the oldest U.S. Olympic males’s basketball participant in historical past and may develop into the oldest Olympic males’s basketball medalist from any nation.

The U.S. males open group play towards Serbia on Sunday in Lille.

Beginning with the Tokyo Video games, nations have been inspired to pick one male and one feminine Opening Ceremony flag bearer. Beforehand, nations historically had one flag bearer.

The U.S. flag bearers on the Tokyo Opening Ceremony have been basketball participant Sue Fowl, who gained her fifth gold at these Video games, and baseball participant Eddy Alvarez, who additionally competed in brief observe velocity skating on the 2014 Winter Video games.