Olympic gold medallist repeatedly references Attack on Titan CrunchyrollAn Olympic jumper who just earned gold at the international competition has been making references to Attack on Titan throughout his events. Since it only finished last year, Attack on Titan\u2018s influence continues to reverberate strongly. Some are even taking it the world\u2019s stage, as evidenced by Jordan D\u00edaz, the Cuban triple-jumper who managed to get a gold medal for Spain at this year\u2019s Olympics. The 23-years-old athlete, who\u2019s partaking in his second major sporting competition at the Paris Summer Olympics, got the gold medal in the triple jump. The accomplishment comes hot on the heels of his first big event, at the European Athletics Championships in Rome this summer, where he not only took gold in the same sports, but set the all-time third best world record, of 18.18 meters. During the games in France, he\u2019s been tapping into the energy of Eren Yaeger and the Survey Corps. At one point, he bit his hand, like Eren does when he\u2019s transforming into Titan, and in another instance he does the Survey Corps salute. Subtle references, but unmistakable if you know what you\u2019re looking at. D\u00edaz almost wasn\u2019t able to partake in these Olympics, since he defected from Cuba in 2021, disqualifying him from the Tokyo Olympics. It was only in June 2024 that he was bureaucratically cleared to represent Spain. His rituals have clearly helped him find the energy needed to be the top competitor. He\u2019s not alone in his love of the best anime, since runner Noah Lyles has been tapping into the heart of the cards with Yu-Gi-Oh lucky charms. Others have been making nods to One Piece as well. Protagonists in these franchises are known for being dedicated individuals who refuse to give up, no matter the odds. Turns out they\u2019d all be gold medallists if we ever saw them at the Olympic games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Olympic gold medallist repeatedly references Attack on Titan CrunchyrollAn Olympic jumper who just earned gold at the international competition has been making references to Attack on Titan throughout his events. Since it only finished last year, Attack on Titan\u2018s influence continues to reverberate strongly. Some are even taking it the world\u2019s stage, as evidenced by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}