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Olympic swimmer slams Piers Morgan after he insults medal winners on Twitter

Published 14:28 10 Aug 2016 BST

Updated 14:53 10 Aug 2016 BST

Simon Lloyd
Olympic swimmer slams Piers Morgan after he insults medal winners on Twitter

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 Piers Morgan's tweets rubbing people up the wrong way - whoever would have thought it?

The Rio Olympics are only a matter of days old, yet the 51-year old's tweets have already got peoples' backs up. First of all, there was his response to Ginny Thrasher winning America's first gold medal of the Games... https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/761987021367873536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw And, now he's had a pop at more or less every Olympian that doesn't win a gold. In the small hours of Wednesday morning, swimmer Siobhan Marie O'Connor set a British record as she won the silver medal in the Women's 200m individual medley, finishing just three tenths of a second behind Hungary's Katinka Hosszu. Swimming - Olympics: Day 4 Although the majority of those watching from these shores would've been happy enough to see another medal in the bag for Team GB, Morgan wasn't too impressed - tweeting that a gold medal was 'all that matters'. https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/763213566581223424 Many took exception with the tweet, one of those being Siobhan's boyfriend and fellow Olympic swimmer, Chris Walker-Hebborn, who sent the following reply: https://twitter.com/WalkerHebborn/status/763240949183119361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Not that it was ever going to make Piers tone it down. https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/763215908969910273 Walker-Hebborn failed to make the final of the men’s 100m backstrokein Rio after he was knocked out in the semis.
The 26-year-old finished sixth in his heat with a time of 53.75 seconds. With only eight spots in total available for tomorrow morning's final, this wasn't enough and he finished 11th out of the 16 semi-finalists. Read more from SportsJOE: thumbnail_SNAPCHATUK  
 
Olympic swimmer slams Piers Morgan after he insults medal winners on Twitter