6-time world champ ends up 6 digit mobile bill!
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For all-around gymnastics gold medal favorite Kohei Uchimura, Pokemon Go turned into Pokemon dough in Brazil. The Olympian who’s now training in Rio and catching a few Pokemon’s here and there.
He has played it so much that he has reportedly received a 500,000 yen bill from his phone carrier. Kyodo news agency reported this hilarious news on Tuesday and it’s left the Gymnast red-faced.
Or as one of Uchimura’s teammates described him after the financial discovery, “He looked dead at the team meal that day”.
However, the report also states that Uchimura has been granted a special 3,000 yen/$30 Dollars daily contract, which comes with unlimited data. Now it looks like he’ll be around 90,000 yen instead of 500,000 yen!
Uchimura has said he is equally committed to helping the Japanese team win gold as he is to retaining his own title.
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Kohei Uchimura, a six-time world champion and the reigning Olympic champion in the men’s all-around competition, is believed to be among the greatest gymnasts of all time. Unfortunately, all the running around and egg-hatching related to Pokemon Go saw him regularly connect to several different Brazilian cell networks in a 24-hour period.
