Poppy Bilderbeck
French swimmer Jules Bouyer has spoken out after his 2024 Paris Olympics appearance led to some people focusing on his outfit opposed to his diving.
If you made it all the way to the 2024 Paris Olympics to represent your country, you'd hope any comments on social media would be about your technique and skill.
Alas, for 22-year-old Bouyer, some Olympics viewers had other ideas.
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The French athlete took to the pool at Paris Aquatics Centre on Friday (August 2) for the men's synchronised 3m springboard final and the individual three-metre springboard event earlier today.
In Friday's synchronised event he just missed out on a medal, coming in at the fifth spot with partner Alexi Jandard and at today's event, he landed 11th position.
However, it wasn't his dives which Olympic viewers have been focusing on social media - no, unfortunately, it was the look of Bouyer's Olympic attire which led to viewers taking to their keyboards, as one person put it, his 'Speedo's working overtime'.
For those of you who haven't looked into the history of why Olympic divers wear pretty much as small a pair of Speedo's as possible, it's all basically to reduce the water's drag on the swimmer as much as possible and minimise the amount of splash they cause - which can all lead to them scoring higher.
Nevertheless, some viewers apparently couldn't help themselves but point out that Bouyer's Speedo's looked a bit more x-rated, another Twitter user saying they 'BARELY contain[ed] his massive Olympic medal'.
And the athlete has since responded to all the attention.
In an interview with Reuters, Bouyer said it's 'their problem' if 'some people find it amusing to look at [his] pants' and that ultimately it just 'amused' him.
"That said, we mustn't forget that it can take the athlete out of his bubble and that it can hurt," he continued. "That wasn't the case for me. It was rather fun."
The diver resolved: "I prefer people to look at my dives rather than my briefs, but there's nothing to worry about."
Sadly, it's not just Bouyer who's been targeted by more dirty-minded Olympics viewers, with Netherlands swimmer Arno Kamminga also having been scrutinised for his trunks online.
Italian swimmer Nicolo Martinenghi may've taken home the gold medal in the 100m backstroke on Sunday (July 28) but the design of the Netherlands team's shorts stole the show, many questioning how Kamminga's trunks were even 'legal'.