Belgian cyclist Gijs van Hoecke was asked to leave the Olympic Village after drunken pictures of him surfaced. It’s no secret that athletes love to let loose after their events end, but 20-year-old Van Hoecke was perhaps a bit overserved before being carried out of a club covered in unknown liquids. The Mirror published the pictures of Gijs’ teammate, Jonathan Dufrasne, carrying him out of London’s Mahiki club to a taxi, a voyage that included stumbling, drunken smiling and loads of flashing bright blue undies. The British tabloid awarded him a gold medal for best Olympic partying (for the record, he placed 15th in his actual event, the men’s omnium). The Belgian Olympic Committee wasn’t nearly as impressed, though, releasing a statement saying they “deplore this incident, which fortunately did not affect life in the Olympic Village and athletes trying to rest ahead of their competition.”
