An Olympic Swimmer With A Dad Bod Is Being Body Shamed
Robel Kiros Habte, the Ethiopian swimmer who came in last position in the 100m freestyle event, has been body shamed in the 2016 Rio Olympics, with some sections calling him "Robel the Whale."
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Robel Kiros Habte is son of Ethiopian swimming federation president
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Habte finished in last position in the 100m freestyle event
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Australia's Kyle Chalmers won gold in 100m freestyle
People are being downright unkind to an Ethiopian swimmer, body-shaming him for having what, in one of the more charitable comments, is called a dad bod.
Robel Kiros Habte swam in the men's 100-meter freestyle heats on Tuesday and finished last in the three-swimmer heat.
Overall, he finished last among the 59 competitors in the eight heats with a time of 1 minute 4.95 seconds. Habte confessed that his personal best was 59.08 seconds; Australia's Kyle Chalmers won Olympic gold with a time of 47.9 seconds.
Ecadf, an Ethiopian news site, called him "out of shape." Others coldly called him "Robel the Whale." Habte is 5 feet 9 and weighs 179 pounds. Chalmers, for instance, is 6-4 and weighs 194.
Others noted that Habte is the son of the president of the country's swimming federation.
Whatever brought him to Rio, the 24-year-old college student was a crowd favorite and was pretty happy just to be there.
"I wanted to do something different for my country, that's why I chose swimming," he told Reuters. "Everybody, every day you wake up in Ethiopia, you run. Not swimming. But I didn't want to run, I wanted to be a swimmer. It didn't matter where I finished."
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