Haiti’s Jeffrey Julmis is drawing a lot of buzz regarding what happened in the men’s 100m hurdle event at the 2016 Olympics in Rio on Tuesday, but not for the right reasons.
Julmis was no match for the first hurdle of the race, which he failed to leap over, and he ate it. This looked like it hurt.
Despite falling on the first hurdle, Jeffrey Julmis of Haiti got up and finished the race. https://t.co/LJf9pvPIbV https://t.co/jphajf6FHn
— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) August 17, 2016
He did, however, get up, and finished the race.