The Olympic divers all look accidentally naked on TV

September 2024 · 2 minute read

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There are few things more exciting than watching a close heat at the Olympics, but one of those things is seeing a person who's really attractive — and the Rio Olympic diving teams deliver on both fronts.

And while the divers' speedos already leave little to the imagination, if a scoreboard or chyron on the television screen is placed just right, it looks like the divers are naked, as pointed out by BuzzFeed.

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NBC. Screenshot via Buzzfeed

The scores cover up each diver's tiny speedo, and it looks like they're wearing nothing at all.

NBC. Screenshot via Buzzfeed
NBC. Screenshot via Buzzfeed

It's just so perfectly placed:

NBC. Screenshot via Buzzfeed

And people took notice:

—Erica (@_EricaEdstrom) August 9, 2016

—Sean (@Seanye_West_32) August 9, 2016

—Lolo Jones (@lolojones) August 9, 2016

—Florence Watts (@ffwatts77) August 9, 2016

It's happened before. Here's a glorious picture from the London Olympics in 2012:

BBC. Screenshot via Buzzfeed.

#FreeTheSpeedo, indeed.

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