A Russian speed skater thrilled spectators at the Sochi Olympics when she unzipped her racing suit down to the bellybutton, forgetting she was wearing nothing underneath.
On thin ice: Russian speedskater Olga Graf unzips her racing suit after clinching a bronze medal at the Sochi Olympics – forgetting she was wearing nothing underneath
Olga Graf had already given the home fans a reason to cheer after winning Russia’s first medal when she took a surprising bronze in the women’s 3,000 meters yesterday.
The 30-year-old was celebrating with a warm down lap when she sub-consciously unzipped her skin-tight suit risking an extremely embarrassing situation.
Fotunately she managed to avoid any major fallout and on realising her faux pas quickly zipped the suit back up with a mortified smile.
‘I totally forgot,’ Graf said sheepishly through a translator. ‘We have very good suits and they are very tight. … You just want to breathe and you want to take off your suit.’
‘Only afterward,’ she said, ‘did I realize that maybe this video will appear on YouTube. But I don’t think it will be so bad.‘
When Graf’s time flashed on the scoreboard – 4 minutes, 3.47 seconds was a personal best – the crowd at Adler Arena erupted in cheers.
She even got a note of praise from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
She whooped it up on her warm-down lap, before celebrating on the podium with fellow medallists
Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic, who took silver and Ireen Wust of the Netherlands who won gold.
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