A series of surprising events at the Paris Olympics have captured the public's attention and taken on a life of their own on social media as the 2024 Games draw to a close.
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Something special happened during the very exciting women's volleyball gold medal match between Canada and Brazil.
Okay, this is awesome: 1/ Canadian and Brazilian players have a heated exchange at the net during the women's beach volleyball gold medal match 2/ DJ plays John Lennon's 'Imagine' 3/ Players look at each other and smile 4/ Crowd starts singing along pic.twitter.com/m1KCJPXtNm
As detailed in this clip posted by Bastien Fachan on X, the opposing teams got into a verbal altercation midway through the match, resulting in a yellow card for the Canadians. The bad feeling continued until the DJ in the arena took it upon himself to play John Lennon's song 'Imagine', something both teams noticed and started laughing at each other. The beautiful moment continued with the crowd joining in on the song as well.