Not the gold medal winner: Twitter gets the wrong Kyle Chalmers

The Aussies seem to love two things recently: Winning gold medals and mistaken identities on Twitter.

It's happened again, as 18-year-old wunderkind Kyle Chalmers took out a shocking win at the 100m freestyle at the Rio Olympics, beating American Nathan Adrian and compatriot Cameron McEvoy to claim gold in the final on Wednesday night.

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It's all terribly exciting, yes, but Australia, you might want to direct your Twitter-praise to the right person. 

A whole heap of people have given a congratulatory slap on the back to @kyle_chalmers on the social media platform, who is very bemused at the surprise, because well, it's not him. But he's not fazed (clearly). Read more...

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