This runner's epic finish line fail has become a beautiful meme
Oh dear.
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Oh dear.
Credit: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images for European Athletics
Not many people can say they've had the glory of celebrating a European Cross Country Championship win in front of a crowd of cheering people.
Not many people can say they've become a meme after face-planting in the mud, either.
Well, Jimmy Gressier can say both. Over the weekend, the runner claimed victory in the men's under-23, rounding off an epic race off with an attempted knee slide through the mud.
As you can tell from the following video, it didn't quite go to plan.
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Let's get another angle on that:
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It wasn't long before the moment was well on its way to meme territory.
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To be fair, a successful knee slide would have been far less memorable.
H/T Twitter Moments.
Topics Memes
