'48 GOLD MEDALIST RETURNS

— Aug. 10 11:31 AM EDT

Jamaica's Usain Bolt kisses his gold medal during the ceremony for the men's 200-meter final during athletics in Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
United States' Kerri Walsh Jennings kisses her medal during a podium ceremony after winning the women's gold medal beach volleyball match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Argentina's Manu Ginobili slams a dunk during a quarterfinal men's basketball game at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
United States' Allyson Felix holds the gold medal for the women's 200-meter during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
United States' Allyson Felix leads teammate Sanya Richards-Ross, and Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown to win the women's 200-meter final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Clarence Shields, of Flint, Mich., takes a knee to pray after watching his daughter Claressa Shields win gold in women's middleweight boxing at the London Olympics, during a viewing party Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in Flint, Mich. (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Ryan Garza) LOCAL TV OUT LOCAL INTERNET OUT
US 1948 gold medalist Ray Lumpp poses in a US team cap after he talked to Associated Press in London, Friday, Aug. 10, 2012. Ray Lumpp is in London to be a mascot of sorts for the US basketball team playing in the London 2012 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Ray Lumpp, 89, has been to the London Olympics twice.

The first time he won gold on the USA Men's Basketball team in 1948. This time he's here as a special guest of the USA Basketball team.

Lumpp says, "In those days we came over on the USS America and went home on the USS Washington. Today, you fly over. It's completely different."

That boat ride took 7 days in 1948. His flight here took 7 hours.

— Mark Carlson

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