Former world No. 1 tennis player Yevgeny Kafelnikov has reiterated his desire to win a gold medal in the golf at the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics.
Kafelnikov, a French and Australian Open champion in the 1990s, swapped racquet for club a decade ago and won the Russian national championship last June.
The 38-year-old Sochi native now wants to add an Olympic golf gold to the tennis gold he won at Sydney in 2000.
"I haven't changed my mind," he told RIA Novosti. "I am training and working on elements of my game. I'm trying to improve them. It's too early to talk about the fruits of my labor, because it's really scrupulous work.
Golf will be included in the Olympic program in Brazil for the first time since 1904.
"I hope that in the near future everything will come off. Victory at the Olympics? Put it this way: We will try."
