The British swim team came out victorious in the 4x200 meter freestyle relay. Each one of those four components of the race is referred to as a "leg"--and since it is a relay race, all four team members were responsible for covering one of the so-called "legs."
Tom Dean and Matthew Richards, two of the team, were on the air with BBC's Claire Balding, when she was complimenting them on their work done throughout the race.
To Richards, Balding excitedly said:
"Matt, you're 18 years old, it's your first Olympics, and you swam — honestly, your third leg was just phenomenal."
The comment about his "phenomenal" third leg was suggestive enough to make the swimmers both smirk.
And Twitter immediately picked up on the hilarity of the moment as well:
ICYMI - Clare Balding quizzing swimmers about their third legpic.twitter.com/BQAgfZgIrL— Ollie Samuels (@Ollie Samuels) 1627554314
Claire Balding has just told a British relay swimmer that his third leg was phenomenal. I\u2019m done\u2026\u2026— BarryFergEFC (@BarryFergEFC) 1627497832
a phenomenal third leg apparently.\n#Tokyo2020pic.twitter.com/RvKJXTy0Ds— \ud835\ude7a\ud835\ude92\ud835\ude96\ud835\ude96 (@\ud835\ude7a\ud835\ude92\ud835\ude96\ud835\ude96) 1627557444
\u201cYour third leg was just phenomenal\u201d pic.twitter.com/u5b4xnztcd— King David \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded\ud83d\udc10\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddee (@King David \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded\ud83d\udc10\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddee) 1627552035
My reviewers rave about my third leg too pic.twitter.com/ZgrH1nMpfx— Tapodeb (@Tapodeb) 1627559562
The British team also includes members James Guy and Duncan Scott, who did not appear in the interview.
oh dearhttps://twitter.com/OllieSamuels/status/1420691880552157185\u00a0\u2026— Josiah \ud83e\udde6\ud83e\udd51 (@Josiah \ud83e\udde6\ud83e\udd51) 1627576925
Choked on my coke when Claire balding said \u2018that third leg was phenomenal\u2019— Ashleigh \ud83e\udd95 (@Ashleigh \ud83e\udd95) 1627498436
Clare Balding after talking about a \u201cphenomenal third leg\u201dpic.twitter.com/6Ft29Lq8Mg— PasKant\u00e9 (@PasKant\u00e9) 1627564113
This is gold https://twitter.com/olliesamuels/status/1420691880552157185\u00a0\u2026— Owen Ludlam (@Owen Ludlam) 1627566957
https://twitter.com/olliesamuels/status/1420691880552157185\u00a0\u2026— Genesis \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7\ud83d\ude80\u26bd\ufe0f\ud83d\ude80\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 (@Genesis \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7\ud83d\ude80\u26bd\ufe0f\ud83d\ude80\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7) 1627560685
Richards, who received the compliments on his "third leg," made his debut European Championships in May. As a teenager, he has quite a big career ahead of him.
"Forever now," he said, "this will be something that I can say I was part of and it will be something I can tell my kids and hopefully my grandkids about one day."
Worthy of a gold medal itself https://twitter.com/olliesamuels/status/1420691880552157185\u00a0\u2026— Jonathan Johnson (@Jonathan Johnson) 1627560125
.@scott_mills @Chris_Stark we need you and @BBCR1 to bring back innuendo bingo just for this https://twitter.com/OllieSamuels/status/1420691880552157185\u00a0\u2026— Sam Dixon-French (@Sam Dixon-French) 1627556263
this is so funnyhttps://twitter.com/olliesamuels/status/1420691880552157185\u00a0\u2026— tia \u2764\ufe0f\u200d\ud83d\udd25 (@tia \u2764\ufe0f\u200d\ud83d\udd25) 1627555199
The smirk. HAHAhttps://twitter.com/OllieSamuels/status/1420691880552157185\u00a0\u2026— Steven Phillips (@Steven Phillips) 1627554833
Lmfao she on some freaky vibeshttps://twitter.com/awkwardsport/status/1420768257053765637\u00a0\u2026— alberto (@alberto) 1627579336
Richards ostensibly has many phenomenal "third leg"s in front of him in his swimming career.
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