A 19-year-old who won a surprise silver medal was so shocked she shouted 'what the f---' on live TV

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A 19-year-old who won a surprise silver medal was so shocked she shouted 'what the f---' on live TV
The top two positions were taken by 19-year-olds Michael Steele/Getty Images
  • Team GB's Keely Hodgkinson was so shocked she won an Olympic medal that she couldn't keep things PG.
  • With the camera on her, the 19-year-old was heard saying "what the f---" to someone in the crowd.
  • Hodgkinson finished second in the women's 800 meters behind the US's Athing Mu, who is also 19.
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A 19-year-old was so surprised by her shock silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics that she shouted "what the f---" on live TV.

Team GB's Keely Hodgkinson finished second in the women's 800 meters behind the US's Athing Mu and was visibly shocked when she realized she'd won silver.

Draped in a Union Jack flag, Hodgkinson was filmed talking to someone in the stands just off camera soon after the race had finished.

Replying to something the person had said, Hodgkinson said: "I know. What the f---."

The teenager finished with a time of 1.55.88, setting a British record that was just 0.67 seconds off her fellow 19-year-old Mu.

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It's been a year to remember for Hodgkinson, who became her country's youngest-ever European indoor champion just four days after her 19th birthday and then beat the favorites Jemma Reekie and Laura Muir to win the 800 meters in the British Olympic trials.

After she won Team GB's first track medal of the Tokyo Olympics, Hodgkinson said she was "speechless."

"I think it is just one of those things where you know something like that is possible but whether it comes out you just don't know. It was such a good race," she said. "I wanted to put it all out there and I did that. It is going to take a couple of days to sink in."

Team GB runner skipped work in a shoe shop to be in Tokyo

A 19-year-old who won a surprise silver medal was so shocked she shouted 'what the f---' on live TV
Bell finished with a time of 1:57.66 Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

Hodgkinson was one of three Team GB women to compete in the final, alongside Reekie and Alex Bell.

Bell took unpaid leave from her job in a shoe shop when she received a last-minute call-up to the squad.

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She finished seventh in the final but said she was "delighted" to earn a personal best in the race.

Reekie narrowly missed out on bronze, fading at the end to finish fourth.

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