Anthony Ammirati has gone viral at the Paris 2024 Olympics, after failing to reach his target height because his manhood caught the bar.
The 21-year-old Frenchman looked set to clear 5.70m until a sensitive part of his body denied him during his third attempt on Saturday, leaving viewers in hysterics on social media.
‘Anthony Ammirati failed the bar and the commentators are already having a hard time acknowledging what happened. Help I’m dying,’ a user on X posted.
‘Unlucky but also good flex’ another pointed out.
‘The best way to lose… man ego still there,’ someone else said.
‘Oh he brought that baguette to the games,’ a fan said.
Ammirati had already cleared two heights before his private parts messed up his score. He eventually finished 12th with a height of 5.60 in Group A.
Robin Emig and Thibault Collet – Ammirati’s compatriots – recorded heights of 5.60 meters and 5.75 meters, respectively.
Collet, who became the third best French performer in pole vault history in June after clearing a bar at 5.95 meters, said of his performance on Saturday: ‘When people say that the Games are different, well, it really is different.
‘I thought it wouldn’t necessarily affect me by arriving with potentially the third world performance of the year, but that doesn’t mean anything.
‘Today, I missed my competition. I knew that this qualification was going to be tough and now I’m taking it in the face.
‘The Olympic Games are over. I’m going to pack my bags before going home.’
The pole vault event final will now take place on Monday.
Earlier at the Olympics, a French diver made the rounds of social media after a snap of his very tight swimming trunks was shared on X.