Brandon Starc – not Stark – has gained approval from fans of the TV show as he gears up for the high jump final.
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Which is pretty impressive, especially when you consider that Jaime Lannister pushed him out of a tower window way back in season one.
Jaime pushes Brandon Stark out of the window in Season 1 of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” [GIF via HBO] Brandon Starc, on the other hand, is an elite Australian athlete now competing at the Rio Olympics.
To cheer on House Starc, tune into NBC for the Track and Field high jump finals on Tuesday, August 16 at 7:30 p.m. EST.
Brandon Starc cleared 2.29 meters in the semi final on Sunday night at the Rio Olympics after a battle worthy of Game of Thrones proportions.
Mitchell Starc has been in his prime for the past couple of years except his spell he was ruled out due to his injury, and was instrumental in Australia’s World Cup triumph in 2015. Mitchell had to get up at 5 a.m, local time, to view the event on television.
As Yahoo Sports reports, Athletics Australia – a guide to Aussie athletes competing in the Olympics – started #HouseStarc, with some choice photoshopping of the Stark’s direwolf sigil.
But the Game of Thrones references do not stop there. “So I’ll be able to get up at about 5am and watch the brother over in Rio do his thing in the high jump”.
“And I thought, “I don’t want to end it here” so just gave it everything”.
An Australian high jumper in Rio has earned himself a bunch of new fans. after the internet collectively realised that he shared a name with a character on Game of Thrones.
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If you’re not already familiar, there’s an Aussie Olympic high jumper by the name of Brandon Starc now gunning for gold in Rio.
