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[–] rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are they not the people with steampunk glasses in the memes?

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Nope, it was Serbia’s Damir Mikec and Zorana Arunovic.

Damir Mikec's eye wear looked more like something made from lego technic:

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/sports/turkish-olympic-shooter-yusuf-dikec-goes-viral-for-his-relaxed-attitude-at-paris-2024-34729/

....and he's gotten no love for having beaten all these meme based characters.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I feel like this is a great statment on how "meritocracy" works IRL