Basketball star Pau Gasol was named as the Spanish team's flag-bearer at the Olympics in place of tennis star Rafael Nadal, who withdrew from the London Games with a knee injury.
u00a0“The Executive Committee of the Spanish Olympic Committee unanimously agreed today to choose Pau Gasol as the flag-bearer of the Spanish delegation at the opening ceremony,” the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) said in a statement.u00a0
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