Dunking your mates head underwater when you're messing about in the pool on holiday is fine, even if it's that mate who gets super pissy about the smallest of things, but doing it to an athlete centimeters out from the finish of a 10km swim is not okay!
French open water swimmer Aurelie Muller was disqualified from the race, after finishing second, and stripped of her silver medal after using the closing strokes of her race to dunk fellow competitor Rachele Bruni's head under the water.
Hardly surprising that the French woman saw her medal taken away from her after essentially attempting to drown her opponent at the end of the event which is swimmings version of a marathon, yeah it might be far less distance but try doing anything in water and you'll see how much more difficult it is.
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After the result was overturned new silver medalist Bruni said, "The French swimmer has sunk me. At the finish she obstructed me and I could not touch the board. I am glad of the decision of the judges."
It's not exactly within the spirit of the games!
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