[Tilu News]After the Paris Olympics, the popularity of many athletes has soared. Some athletes achieved excellent results and became famous instantly, and some athletes became famous because of a “suspended in mid-air” photo. Japanese badminton representative Chihiro Shida has won many fans with her sweet appearance and full of positive energy on the court. The number of followers on her Instagram account recently exceeded the 1 million mark, becoming one of the people with the largest increase after the Olympics. athlete.
Chihiro Shida (right)/Nami Matsuyama won the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. (Photo: Getty Images)
The 27-year-old Chihiro Shida and her partner Naomi Matsuyama won the women’s doubles bronze medal in badminton at this year’s Paris Olympics. The former’s outstanding appearance has become the focus of the audience because of her excellent skills and her affable face regardless of whether she wins or loses. Her smile made her praised by netizens as “a contestant who values both beauty and strength.” In fact, Chihiro Shida has been famous in Japan for a long time. Before the Olympics, she had 430,000 followers on IG. Her appearance on the five-ring stage this summer has brought her into the eyes of more fans. The number of fans has also successfully exceeded the number recently. 1 million, becoming the only female athlete in the Japanese delegation at the Paris Olympics with more than one million IG followers besides tennis player Naomi Osaka.
Chihiro Shida (left) has attracted much attention from netizens because of her good looks. (Photo: Getty Images)
The number of Chiharu Shida’s IG followers has now exceeded 1 million (Screenshot of Chiharu Shida’s IG)
In addition to Chihiro Shida, there are also many athletes who have experienced a large increase in the number of followers on their social accounts due to the Olympics. Men’s surfing bronze medalist Gabriel Medina has made himself known to more people with a photo of himself “suspended in mid-air”. During the competition, the Brazilian athlete jumped up and levitated in mid-air to achieve “first place” The scene of hand gestures and surfboards standing side by side was successfully captured by “AFP” photographer Jerome Brouillet. It became the “best photo” of this Olympics in the minds of many viewers. This photo earned Medina a harvest on IG. With more than 9.5 million likes, the number of fans increased by approximately 2.9 million.
The footage of Medina’s match went viral on the Internet (Photo: Tilu Database)
The number of followers on Medina’s IG later increased by about 3 million to more than 14 million (Picture: Screenshot of Medina’s IG)
On the other hand, Brazilian judo player Beatriz Souza had about 11,000 IG followers on the eve of the Olympics, but her feat of helping her country win the fifth gold medal in history has caused her current followers to jump to 3.3 million. As for American gymnastics queen Simone Biles, who won 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal in this Olympics, she is the athlete whose number of IG followers has increased the most during this period. It has increased by more than 4 million since the eve of the Olympic Games.
Souza won Brazil’s fifth Olympic gold medal in history, and the number of IG followers soared from about 11,000 to more than 3.2 million (Photo: IJF)
(Picture: Susha IG screenshot)
The number of IG followers of American gymnastics queen Biles has increased from more than 8 million before the Olympics to nearly 13 million now (Picture: Biles IG screenshot)
Text: Li Keyi
This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in”Paris Olympics | Popularity surged after the Olympics, Chihiro Shida’s IG followers exceeded one million」
