On the day golf was voted back into the Olympics, Sergio Garcia said he wants to make it to Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and beyond.

"If I stay in shape I probably have three chances," the 29-year-old stated after taking a share of the halfway lead with Scot David Drysdale at the Madrid Masters.

"I'm thrilled and excited about the possibility. There's still a long way to go, but I'm going to try to stay healthy.

"This is a very special day. We've been fighting for a year now to get it in and it feels good. It's going to be an amazing experience for all of us.

"I've always watched runners, high jumpers, long jumpers thinking it would be nice to have the chance and now we do.

"Until you are there and part of it you don't know what it feels like. It's like the Ryder Cup - only once you play do you realise how big it is.

"We have the majors and the Ryder Cup, but winning an Olympic gold medal would be awesome - and staying at the Olympic village would be a great experience."

Garcia, given the news during his second round at Centro Nacional, celebrated with a birdie on the same hole and went on to add a 67 to his opening 64.

His bid for a first victory of the year sees him 13 under par at halfway, with Drysdale alongside him following a 65.

The 34-year-old made his 10th trip to the Tour qualifying school last November, but is 50th on this year's money list and will be playing for Scotland in the World Cup next month.

He finished his second round just as Garcia had done on the opening day - with an eagle.

Only one behind are Ireland's Gary Murphy, Englishman Ross McGowan and Italian Emanuele Canonica - and McGowan would have led but for four-putting the 16th for a double bogey six.

Former Tour winner Canonica is only 262nd on the "Race to Dubai" standings and no longer in the world's top 1,000, but he was at The Masters in April - as caddie for Jose Maria Olazabal.

The Spanish ace also eagled the 18th to make the cut on the limit of four under, as did Luke Donald.

Olazabal's 65 was a 10-stroke improvement on the first round, but playing partner Darren Clarke went in the other direction.

Five under and leading midway through his first round, Clarke crashed out on one over after a 76.

First round leader Manuel Quiros not surprisingly found it hard to follow up his "unbelievable" opening 62.

That had put him two in front of Garcia, but the world number 1,076 dropped to 10th with a 73.

Drysdale, who holed from 30 feet on the last, said: "The goal has been to give myself a few opportunities and see what happens.

"The more experience yoou gain the more relaxed you feel."

McGowan finished with a 10-footer for eagle and commented: "That's two of the best ball-striking days I've had.

"My game is as good as it's ever been and hopefully it will keep improving."

Collated second round scores & totals

(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72):

131 David Drysdale 66 65, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 64 67

132 Gary Murphy 67 65, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 67 65, Ross McGowan 66 66

133 Anthony Wall 66 67, Jorge Campillo (Spa) 67 66, Danny Willett 66 67

134 Shane Lowry 71 63

135 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 69 66, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 68 67, Marcel Siem (Ger) 67 68, Manuel Quiros (Spa) 62 73

136 Alvaro Salto (Spa) 69 67, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 70 66, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 71 65, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 69 67, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 69 67, Peter Lawrie 69 67, Simon Khan 68 68, Lee Slattery 68 68

137 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 69 68, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 74 63, David Horsey 66 71, David Lynn 67 70, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 69 68, Paul Broadhurst 71 66, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 74 63, Pablo Martin (Spa) 70 67, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 70 67

138 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 69 69, Carlos Del Moral (Spa) 69 69, Damien McGrane 67 71, Robert Dinwiddie 72 66, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 71 67, Marc Warren 70 68, Alexander Noren (Swe) 71 67, Sam Little 68 70, Michael Hoey 69 69, Bradley Dredge 69 69, Paul Waring 69 69, Gareth Maybin 70 68, Scott Drummond 68 70, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 71 67, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 69 69, Gary Lockerbie 68 70, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 70 68

139 Alvaro Velasco (Spa) 72 67, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 71 68, Steven O'Hara 71 68, Oliver Fisher 65 74, Stephen Dodd 70 69, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 70 69, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 72 67, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) 69 70, Richard Bland 72 67, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 70 69, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 72 67, Phillip Price 70 69, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 69 70, Seve Benson 70 69, Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 70 69, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 70 69, Barry Lane 68 71

140 Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 69 71, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 71 69, Luis Claverie (Spa) 69 71, Mark Brown (Nzl) 68 72, Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa) 75 65, Paul Lawrie 70 70, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 71 69, Santiago Luna (Spa) 70 70, Luke Donald 71 69

The following players failed to make the cut:

141 Federico Cabrera (Arg) 74 67, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 67 74, Andrew Coltart 70 71, Branden Grace (Rsa) 71 70, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 68 73, Simon Wakefield 72 69, Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 70 71, Brett Rumford (Aus) 70 71, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 72 69, Jamie Donaldson 68 73, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 71 70, Miles Tunnicliff 73 68, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 73 68, Gregory Havret (Fra) 72 69

142 Sam Hutsby 73 69, Taco Remkes (Ned) 73 69, Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (Spa) 74 68, Carlos Rodiles (Spa) 69 73, Marc Cayeux (Zim) 74 68, Graeme Storm 72 70, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 72 70

143 Richie Ramsay 73 70, James Kingston (Rsa) 72 71, Markus Brier (Aut) 69 74

144 Gary Orr 71 73, Miguel Angel Martin (Spa) 76 68, David Howell 72 72, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 72 72, Richard Finch 72 72, Tano Goya (Arg) 76 68, Pedro Oriol (Spa) 71 73, Kenneth Ferrie 74 70, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 74 70

145 Callum Macaulay 72 73, Eduardo De La Riva (Spa) 74 71, Darren Clarke 69 76, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 72 73

146 Pedro Linhart (Spa) 77 69

147 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 72 75, Anton Haig (Rsa) 74 73, Benn Barham 73 74

148 Phillip Archer 76 72

149 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 76 73, Oskar Henningsson (Swe) 74 75

150 Stan Utley (USA) 77 73

RTD: Jose-Manuel Lara 84

WD: Pablo Larrazabal 71