Parker, who will play with team France when the 2012 Olympics kick off on July 27th, was previously sidelined from participating in sports after he suffered a left eye injury during a nightclub brawl between Chris Brown and members of hip hop star Drake’s entourage.

Parker has since sued the owners of the nightclub for $20 million for allowing the incident to escalate.

Following a brief recovery period after the eye injury, Parker sought the opinions of two expert ophthalmologists who agreed with the French doctor who operated on Parker and two Swiss experts that he had healed enough to play.

“I just arrived in Paris with good news. I’m going to the Olympics!!! I’m really happy I got the green light from Spurs!! Thank you Pop!! Now, towards London with beautiful glasses!!!.”

This past season, Parker averaged team highs of 18.3 points and career high 7.7 assists in 60 games for the Spurs. He also led the team with averages of 20.1 points and 6.8 assists in the playoffs, which ended with a loss to Oklahoma City in the Western Conference finals.

USA Today reports that Parker is joining the French squad in Orleans and he could play in an exhibition game against England on Saturday.

France is set to kick off Olympic play on July 29 against the United States.

“It is great news and a relief for the whole France team,” coach Vincent Collet said. “I spoke with Tony on the phone and he sounded very happy — and also relieved — about this development. It was a difficult and alarming situation for everyone.”

In addition to Tony Parker, the French have a solid roster including NBA stars such as Joakim Noah, Nicolas Batum and Parker’s Spurs teammate Boris Diaw.

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According to the NY Post, Parker filed a $20 million dollar lawsuit against SoHo’s W.i.P. claiming the club’s owners are responsible for the “corneal laceration of the left eye and other injuries” he suffered in the bottle-throwing scuffle between the two Rihanna love rivals.

“The defendants were reckless, careless and negligent in permitting Drake’s entourage and Brown’s entourage to be in the club at the same time despite known tension between the two,” the NBA star complains in the papers which were filed in Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The NY Post reports that Parker didnt’ arrive at the club with either camp, but was seated with Chris Brown when the fight broke out.

“They started throwing bottles everywhere,” Parker testified in a press conference following the ordeal. “It started getting worse.”

Parker’s lawyer, David Jaroslawicz, said the extent of his client’s wounds are still to be determined, but noted that eye injuries “certainly don’t improve your outside shot.”

The Spurs star and ex-husband of Eva Longoria explained that while he was slated to play with the French team at the Summer Olympics, he’ll be sidelined for a week as he heals with the aid of a “therapeutic” contact lens.

“I’ll be missing the start of the French team because I can’t do anything for a week except keep the lens in and then take drops,” he said, adding, “But I was lucky. The injury won’t prevent me from competing in the Olympics in any way.”

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