{"id":200309,"date":"2024-07-08T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T01:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=200309"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T00:00:28","slug":"jacobs-raimo-summer-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/07\/08\/jacobs-raimo-summer-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s Jacobs, Raimo headed to 2024 Summer Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/manoa-basketball-jacobs-raimo-olympians.jpg\" alt=\"graphic with two basketball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-200310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/manoa-basketball-jacobs-raimo-olympians.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/manoa-basketball-jacobs-raimo-olympians-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/manoa-basketball-jacobs-raimo-olympians-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A pair of basketball players with University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa ties are headed to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Current Rainbow Warrior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/akira-jacobs\/21531\">Akira Jacobs<\/a> was named to Japan&#8217;s 12-member national squad, and Latvia\u2019s 3&#215;3 squad was announced with former <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/zigmars-raimo\/18276\">Zigmars Raimo<\/a> earning one of four spots.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been more than 50 years since <abbr>UH<\/abbr> has had a basketball Olympian. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> All-American Tom Henderson was a member of the 1972 U.S. squad that dropped a controversial gold-medal game against the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Olympic athletes<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/07\/22\/uh-swimming-alumni-paris-olympics\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> swimming alumni set for Paris Olympics<\/a>, July 22, 2024<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/07\/17\/former-uh-sailor-moroz-olympics\/\">Former <abbr>UH<\/abbr> sailor Moroz to compete in Paris Olympics<\/a>, July 17, 2024<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/07\/16\/water-polo-olympics\/\">4 Wahine water polo players to compete at Olympics<\/a>, July 16, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 20 years old, Jacobs is the youngest member on Japan\u2019s Olympic squad. Jacobs grew up in California, but was born in Yokohama, Japan, and moved back to his birth country in 2020. Since then he has been part of the national team program, including last year when he competed at the 2023 <abbr>FIBA<\/abbr> <abbr>U<\/abbr>19 World Cup in Hungary. Japan will open the Olympics in Group <abbr>B<\/abbr> against Germany on July 27, and will also face France (July 30) and Brazil (August 2).<\/p>\n<p>Raimo is one of four players on Latvia\u2019s 3&#215;3 squad. The sport made its Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with Latvia capturing gold. Raimo helped Latvia punch its ticket to Paris and the right to defend its gold medal by winning the <abbr>FIBA<\/abbr> 3&#215;3 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Hong Kong earlier this spring. Latvia will open pool play against Lithuania on July 30.<\/p>\n<p>Former <abbr>UH<\/abbr> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=19528\">Junior Madut<\/a> is currently in training camp with the South Sudan national team and could potentially be the third Rainbow Warrior to compete in this year&#8217;s Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>For more, <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/7\/8\/mens-basketball-jacobs-raimo-make-olympic-basketball-squads.aspx\">visit the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than 50 years since <abbr>UH<\/abbr> has had a basketball Olympian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,82,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-200309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200309"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200679,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200309\/revisions\/200679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}