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This girl didn't reply to a lad's Tinder message... and then he won an Olympic gold medal

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9.21am, 14 Aug 2016
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Rio Olympics Swimming Michael Sohn Michael Sohn

ON FRIDAY NIGHT, Singaporean swimmer Joseph Schooling beat Michael Phelps to take the gold medal in the 100M Butterfly.

And thousands of miles away, a University of Texas student gazed at her Tinder forlornly, thinking about what could have been.

Twitter user @sabwow shared screenshots from a Tinder conversation she had had with Schooling back in April.

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There he is now.

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But while Schooling tried to start a conversation (“Whatcha up to”) she never replied.

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Damn it.

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Girl.

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*scrambles through Tinder messages on offchance there’s an Olympian in there*

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