Retiring Lopez delighted with record fifth-straight Greco-Roman gold medal

Mijain Lopez won gold in the 130kg Greco-Roman final to become the first to win an event five times in a row

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00:00For me, it means a lot.

00:03As I've always said,

00:05if you win a medal in an Olympic Games,

00:08winning three, four, five medals is phenomenal.

00:11It's a way of showing

00:15all the sacrifices you make

00:17and the effort you put in to achieve those triumphs.

00:20With a lot of service, work and training,

00:24I think I've given my best

00:29in my sporting career.

00:31And I think that the same training sessions,

00:34the same fights I had with the younger contenders,

00:39made me think it was time to say goodbye

00:42to the mattress of fighting.

00:43And what better opportunity than this

00:47to be in a final.