United States swimming Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel was caught watching a Tremendous Smash Bros. Final clips compilation YouTube video whereas cooling down after a race.
The 27-year-old Olympian has 9 gold medals to his title, and one silver, since his debut on the Olympic stage in 2016. Dressel was caught watching Smash clips on his cellphone whereas taking an ice bathtub by the NBC broadcast on August 7.
The feed confirmed the swimmer watching by means of a video of what seemed like LAN matches with participant cameras and event overlays. He appeared to skip components of the video, tapping the display to quick ahead forward to observe simply the combos and kills.
Smash followers instantly clocked the sport on the Olympics broadcast, and went to social media to disclose the Olympian’s fandom.
“Watching the Olympics with my mother and CAELEB DRESSEL IS WATCHING YEET SMASH IN THE ICE BATH BETWEEN RACES,” the fan who noticed him mentioned.
One response to the clip claimed Dressel is a Steve principal, and that the swimmer usually performs Smash towards the opposite swim staff members.
In a 2019 interview with Folks, Dressel mentioned that the nationwide staff will get collectively at occasions and performs Nintendo video games.
“Numerous Mario Kart, Tremendous Smash Bros, just a few completely different card video games, actually simply stuff so we are able to keep free and get your thoughts off of swimming earlier than going into the meet,” he informed the journal.
The clip even made its option to the Smash Bros. Reddit the place gamers recognized one of many matches he watched the spotlight clip from, a year-old recreation performed at an occasion on the College of British Columbia.
Dressel is likely one of the many athletes on the Olympics who’ve both immediately referenced in style video video games or anime on the Paris Video games or shouted them out on social media.
