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08-11-2016, 09:54 AM
**t the gold medal winner: Twitter gets the wrong Kyle Chalmers
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The Aussies seem to love two things recently: Winning gold medals and mistaken identities on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/random-dude-census-fail/).
It's happened again, as 18-year-old wunderkind Kyle Chalmers took out a shocking win at the 100m freestyle at the Rio Olympics, beating American Nathan Adrian and compatriot Cameron McEvoy to claim gold in the final on Wednesday night.
SEE ALSO: OK, let's talk about *** at the Rio Olympics (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/rio-olympics-***-condoms/)
It's all terribly exciting, yes, but Australia, you might want to direct your Twitter-praise to the right person.*
A whole heap of people have given a congratulatory slap on the back to @kyle_chalmers (https://twitter.com/kyle_chalmers) on the social media platform, who is very bemused at the surprise, because well, it's **t him. But he's **t fazed (clearly). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/wrong-kyle-chalmers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The Aussies seem to love two things recently: Winning gold medals and mistaken identities on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/random-dude-census-fail/).
It's happened again, as 18-year-old wunderkind Kyle Chalmers took out a shocking win at the 100m freestyle at the Rio Olympics, beating American Nathan Adrian and compatriot Cameron McEvoy to claim gold in the final on Wednesday night.
SEE ALSO: OK, let's talk about *** at the Rio Olympics (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/rio-olympics-***-condoms/)
It's all terribly exciting, yes, but Australia, you might want to direct your Twitter-praise to the right person.*
A whole heap of people have given a congratulatory slap on the back to @kyle_chalmers (https://twitter.com/kyle_chalmers) on the social media platform, who is very bemused at the surprise, because well, it's **t him. But he's **t fazed (clearly). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/wrong-kyle-chalmers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Olympics (http://mashable.com/category/olympics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Watercooler (http://mashable.com/watercooler/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/xPtfoQk8JGE