Sochi Winter Olympics fans flooded Twitter with jokes regarding names of athletes Andreas Wank and Semen Pavlichenko.
One of the users said that there is hope that Wank comes first, while another user said that there is a "delicious irony" that the 25-year-old ski jumper partakes in the only skiing event where he doesn't have a pole in his hand.
Another user of the micro-blogging site that Winter Olympics is amazing as there is a Russian luger called Semen, and a German ski jumper called Wank.
The Sochi games have been surrounded with a lot of controversy because of Russia's controversial gay rights law.
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