Serhiy Kulish, the Ukrainian silver medalist in shooting at Paris 2024, shared his thoughts on Turkish shooter Yusuf Dikeç, whose meme became famous on social media, UNN reports citing Tribuna.com.
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"Look, the meme is great. The whole team laughed, it was great. I hope he's laughing at all this too, that it's not offensive to him. Because he's a very strong athlete, this is his sixth Olympics, if I'm not mistaken (fifth - ed.). It was no accident that he won a medal. He had been working towards it for a long time. It's a pattern. - Kulish noted. - "This meme is a good advertisement for our sport, it's great.
The Ukrainian explained that the Turkish athlete was not wearing any equipment, saying that "you don't shoot a pistol with special equipment." "He was shooting in his Turkish uniform. It's only rifles that are fired in suits, pistols are not. Kostevych is also wearing a T-shirt and an eyepiece that covers his left eye so that he doesn't squint," Kulish said.
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A meme about a Turkish athlete who competed in a single T-shirt became popular online.