Subtitle fail: Olympic swimmer’s surprising childhood

Posted on August 7, 2012 by



With so much live action and drama, the Olympics have been a true feast of subtitle failings, and we really should give the BBC captioning team huge credit for coping as well as they have and bringing the London 2012 Games to the Deaf masses.

However, we’d much rather point out things like this.

Clearly the lad was destined for the sport from his early ‘buoyhood’.

Original photo from Twitter @Alsboy

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