Field hockey ace Sam Quek had to deny she got up to any illicit shenanigans during the Rio de Janeiro games in 2016 while live on the BBC.
The 32 year old, who won gold for GB, was presenting BBC breakfast coverage of the Tokyo Games with Dan Walker when the cringey question was asked.
Sam and Dan were joined by Team GB’s Chief de Mission Mark English via video link who was relaying how all the athletes were holding up on the first official day of the competition.
Dan cheekily asked Mark about Sam’s behaviour at the Olympic village in Rio and it was pretty awkward.
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Dan, 44, said: “Was Sam well behaved in the village?’, with Sam indignantly joking: “Always! Don’t ask him about after.”
Mark floundered, looked shifty and paused before going straight into how the athletes are all keeping COVID safe.
“As you know, social distancing and physical distancing is the order of the day so…,” Mark said while looking a tad embarrassed.
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Sam quickly said: “Woah woah woah, I was in a very happy relationship then, Mark,” with her co-host saying: “Well this has got spectacularly awkward, Mark.”
Sam was dating property entrepreneur Tom Mairs while she competed at the Rio Olympics – and is now married to him.
She then said: “Just to assure everybody at home and my dear now-husband, us hockey girls are very well behaved because we compete throughout the whole tournament.”
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But it didn’t end there.
Sam, who took part in I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here in 2016, later confessed she had an inquisitive text from a former campmate asking about the uncomfortable chat.
Dan said: “The repercussions of our chat about the athletes’ village after you won your gold medal continue. Sam’s already got a text from who?”
Turns out it was Carol Vorderman texting to ask what had happened at the Olympic Village.
Sam said: “And I said nothing because nothing did! I feel terrible because Mark has painted this weird picture of social distancing in the Olympic village.”
Rio 2016 was said to be the steamiest Games ever after it was reported that 350,000 condoms, 100,000 female condoms and 175,000 packets of lubricant were supplied for Rio’s Olympic Village.
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