Olympic gymnast goes viral after fans find her profile on dating app
Olympic gymnast Flavia Saraiva has gone viral for two completely different reasons this past month - and one of them has to do with her 'Tinder account'.
On July 30, the Brazilian athlete first went viral after suffering a painful injury at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Saraiva was practicing her uneven bars routine for the women's artistic team all-around final when she suddenly lost her grip and fell onto the mat where she sustained an injury near her eye.
Although Saraiva said she 'could not see' after the accident, she swiftly had to recover to compete in the final where she ended up triumphing and taking home the bronze medal.
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Despite her injury, Saraiva managed to nab her first Olympic medal and won the people's hearts for her remarkable perseverance.
As per Metro, Saraiva said of the injury at the time: "I could not see, it bled, but the team’s doctor told me everything was all right.
"I believe my knee hit my eye when I tripped. It’s not the first time it happened to me. We are warriors."
She later told Globo that she became disoriented from the accident, saying: "When I realized I was on the floor, lying down with my knee in my face. I just rolled over so Rebeca could warm up.
"I said, ‘guys, where am I?’. Then Chico said, ‘it’s bleeding, it’s bleeding’. I put my hand on my face and my eye was bleeding, I didn’t understand anything. Then he asked if I was warm. Then I said, ‘now I’m awake’."
Now the Brazilian gymnast is going viral for a completely different reason as her Tinder account has seemed to surface online, according to The Sun.
Written in Portuguese, her profile reportedly reads that she's looking for 'nothing serious, but it depends,' according to The Sun's translation.
Her profile also says that she's 'an artistic gymnastics athlete, Olympic and world medalist,' and that she's 'tanned' and a 'good person.'
Naturally, a lot of people online are now trying to shoot their shot with the Olympic medalist.
Translated from Portuguese, one user on Twitter wrote atop a screen-recording of Flavia's profile, "POV: You downloaded Tinder to find the supposed Flavia Saraiva and you succeeded."
Another user wrote, also translated from Portuguese: "If even Flavia Saraiva, an Olympic bronze medalist in France 2024, uses the dating app Tinder to meet someone, what can we say about you mere mortals who use more than 3 or 4 dating apps at the same time and still haven't found anyone…DARK TIMES."
While someone else added: "Flavia Saraiva being responsible for the biggest marketing ever done for Tinder."
UNILAD has reached out to representatives of Saraiva for comment.
Yasmeen Hamadeh