It’s Mario time for one American athlete competing at Pyeongchang 2018.
Twitter user @douglasturtle on Wednesday joked that Olympic curler Matt Hamilton bears a resemblance to Nintendo’s famed animated Italian plumber video game character, Mario:
The U.S. Olympic Committee’s official @TeamUSA Twitter account joined in with the fun, lightheartedly asking its 1.9 million followers to “spot the difference” between these two pictures:
Which is exactly what some people did:
I see the difference…the one on the right is missing the back shoe. Or is it the difference in the size of the nose? Nah, it’s the missing shoe.
— R Seykora (@rjseykora) February 8, 2018
Pretty there’s an extra light reflection in the stone on the right.
— Joe Garrick (@JGarrick62) February 8, 2018
Hamilton also retweeted the committee’s post, which suggests he was down with the comparison.
The siblings, from McFarland, Wisconsin, beat married Russian couple Anastasia Bryzgalova and Alexander Krushelnitskiy in their first preliminary match on Thursday.
The games formally open on Friday.
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