Noriaki Kasai wants to know when he’ll be in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Japanese ski jumper was named to a record-breaking seventh Winter Olympic Team on Tuesday.
“Wow, a seventh time,” Kasai said, according to the Japan News. “That’s 22 years. That’s something, huh? Shouldn’t I be in the Guinness Book of World Records soon?”
If he does make it, Kasai would have to share space.
Russian luger Albert Demtschenko is also likely to compete in his seventh Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Kasai first competed at the 1992 Albertville Olympics. The star of the Japanese ski jumping team is women’s gold-medal favorite Sara Takanashi, who was born more than four years after Albertville.
Kasai has won one Olympic medal, a team silver in 1994. He was not chosen for the team event at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, where Japan won gold. His absence was due to injury, according to the Japan Times.
Kasai has a small chance at a medal in Sochi. He was fifth at the prestigious Four Hills in Europe and earlier was the oldest man to make a World Cup ski jumping podium. Japan also took bronze at the one team event so far this season.
“I’ve been in the kind of form where I can say, even at my age, that I am going to aim for a medal,” Kasai said, according to the Japan Times. “I’ve never had another season as good as this.”
