Spanish National Team
Gasol was part of the Spanish national basketball team that won gold medals at the 2006 FIBA World Championship and the 2009 FIBA European Championships. He also won silver medals at the 2007 FIBA European Championship, the 2008 Olympics Basketball Tournament, and the 2012 Olympics Basketball Tournament.
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“Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
Fling off their iron and cut the green,
Leaving circles new and clean
While overhead the wing-tips whirred.”
—Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)
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—Hillary Rodham Clinton (20th century)
“Once a word is spoken, a team of four horse cannot retake it.”
—Chinese proverb.