Last week, a BBC commentator struggled mightily to try and explain what the big robot was that triathletes kept cycling past during the Olympics. Now the broadcasterâs social media team is running into the same problem.
If you missed it, the triathlon commentator referenced Gundam while athletes were cycling past, saying âGoing past this giant statue of… Gandum, which is some sort of famous robot. Uh, I donât know anything about itâ. He did at least later get the Unicorn part right in another mention, which was not a bad recovery since the new statue is actually from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
Now, a week later, the BBCâs Twitter account is at it again, calling Gundam a…Transformer as it can be seen looming over the climbing walls.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1423218128134279171
To be fair, in this instance having been corrected or joked at over 1000 times, they issued the closest youâll get to a correction on a light-hearted social media post
Well now, that depends on what sport. With the exception of some of the Decepticon jets Gundam is probably faster over a sprint distance, but Iâd put my money on a guy like Ultra Magnus in boxing or shot put.
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