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Topics: Olympics, Sport, Social Media, Twitter
Callum Jones
Topics: Olympics, Sport, Social Media, Twitter
An Olympic athlete has revealed why divers at the games have to wear small trunks to compete amid viewers being shocked by x-rated details.
The 2024 Paris Olympics is heading into its final days, and my word, has it been an eventful one.
One of the talking points in the pool has surrounded around athletes' attire, with viewers losing it over x-rated details.
French swimmer Jules Bouyer took to the pool at Paris Aquatics Centre last week for the men's synchronised 3m springboard final, and earlier this week for the individual three-metre springboard event.
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While the Frenchman was aiming for a medal, Olympic viewers on social media were more focused on his swimwear.
For those who have not tuned into diving events, swimwear is typically tighter than your average pair of Speedos.
Some viewers couldn't help but point out that Bouyer's swimwear looked a bit more x-rated, with one Twitter user saying they 'BARELY contain[ed] his massive Olympic medal'.
It led to the Olympian issuing a response to all the attention he had been receiving.
He told Reuters it's 'their problem' if 'some people find it amusing to look at [his] pants' and that ultimately it just 'amused' him.
"That said, we mustn't forget that it can take the athlete out of his bubble and that it can hurt," he continued. "That wasn't the case for me. It was rather fun.
"I prefer people to look at my dives rather than my briefs, but there's nothing to worry about."
Tom Daley, the Team GB diver, revealed swimmers have to wear small trucks in a 2016 interview.
And as you'd probably expect, swimmers don't just wear tight trunks for fun but instead for particular reasons.
"They have to be small because everything has to stay in place," Daley revealed on The Graham Norton Show.
"If you're spinning around the last thing you want to do is have something come out of place. And when you hit the water you don't want things flapping about because it would hurt," the diver continued.
Unfortunately, it hasn't just been Bouyer targeted by Olympic viewers on social media, with Netherlands swimmer Arno Kamminga also coming under the spotlight for his attire.
The Netherlands team decided on a white-orange color for its swimmers in Paris, but the pattern did mean it's not the easiest to tell where the shorts end and naked flesh begins.
And with the internet being the internet, a lot of social media users let their feelings known.