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Patrick Mahomes addressed the anticipation of him playing successful the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics for Team USA's emblem shot team.
The Kansas City Chiefs superstar has been speculated to beryllium a imaginable enactment to pb the US successful the archetypal ever Olympic emblem football competition.
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FILE - Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes chews his rima defender during warmups earlier an NFL shot crippled against the Denver Broncos, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024 successful Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)
However, Mahomes appeared uninterested successful the relation erstwhile asked astir it by reporters connected Thursday.
"I'll astir apt permission that to the younger guys. I'll beryllium a small older by the clip that comes around," Mahomes said.
In the summertime of 2028, erstwhile The Games volition instrumentality place, Mahomes volition beryllium 32 years aged and conscionable weeks distant from turning 33 that September.
Mahomes antecedently suggested helium would "want to" play successful the Olympics, but questioned whether helium has the skills to bash so, and besides expressed concerns astir his age, backmost successful August.
"There’s the privation to, I conscionable don’t cognize if my accomplishment acceptable is what is required for emblem football," Mahomes said astatine the clip via Nice Kicks.
"First, I’m going to beryllium successful my 30s astatine that constituent and past it’s a batch of scrambling astatine the QB position. It’s not conscionable sitting determination throwing. And past I’m definite much of the diversion quarterbacks mightiness get retired there. I could beryllium a coach. You get a golden medal for being a coach? Maybe I could beryllium a advisor for the team."
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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) celebrates with fans arsenic helium walks disconnected the tract aft an NFL divisional circular playoff shot crippled against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, successful Kansas City, Mo. The Chiefs won 42-36 successful overtime. (AP Photo/Colin E. Braley)
NFL owners unanimously approved players’ information successful emblem shot during their gathering earlier this month.
Last month, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said involvement successful competing successful the Summer Olympics has been a blistery taxable successful the league, adding a solution connected the contented whitethorn beryllium forthcoming.
"Well, I’ve heard straight from a batch of players who privation to enactment and correspond their country, whether it’s the United States oregon a state that they came from," Goodell said successful April.
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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) looks to walk during the archetypal fractional of the AFC title NFL shot crippled against the Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, successful Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
"I deliberation that's thing that we'll proceed to sermon with, not conscionable the union, but besides the clubs. I deliberation some of those are things that we'll astir apt resoluteness sometime successful the adjacent 60 days."
Other players who person expressed involvement successful competing successful the Olympics see Tyreek Hill, Aaron Jones, and Kyle Juszczyk. Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts, who won the Super Bowl successful February, was besides precocious tabbed the emblem shot ambassador for the Games.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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