The 21-year-old athlete joked about how his manhood clipped the crossbar during his semifinal heat Saturday in a video that has since made its way around social media.
“POV: you create more buzz for your package than for your performances,” a message in French, as translated by Google, read over a video of Ammirati eating in what appeared to be a cafeteria in the Olympic Village.
It’s unclear when exactly the video was posted, and where it originally came from.
Ammirati does not appear to have a TikTok account, and the video is not on his Instagram.
“I’m a bit gutted because I didn’t miss anything on the third attempt at 5.70m. What I did miss was a bit of jumping in training to fine-tune the settings. Just a technical session.”
Ammirati, who did not address the situation directly at the time, said he was “100 percent physically, but I was missing a bit of pole vault.
“The conditions were good. It’s the first time I’ve started a competition without any stress. As I was a total outsider, I only had one goal: to interact with the audience. I was almost there.”
Ammirati won gold at the World Athletics U20 Championships in 2022.
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so far the guys are doing way better than the ladies at the Olympics with their poles and bulges. ladies time to step it up. show me what you can do. lol
Darlene Allen Carver
08-09
It is time to stop talking about this. This incident has been talked about more than the Olympian’s that won gold.
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