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From heartwarming to controversial, the 2026 Winter Olympics gave us unforgettable internet moments! Join us as we count down the viral sensations that had everyone talking. Our list includes adorable babies, unexpected scandals, courageous comebacks, and jaw-dropping performances that broke the internet. Which Olympic viral moment was your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
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00:00sometimes it gets a little heated welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our
00:04picks for the viral moments that swept across the internet both positive and negative that
00:09involved the 2026 winter olympics and the athletes taking part why do you do it it's honestly just a
00:15a really big wow factor number 10 the curling baby while yannick schwaller and brier schwaller
00:23herleman collected a win for switzerland against estonia in the opening of the curling mixed
00:27doubles no one was talking about that instead it was the couple's baby that stole the show
00:33playing with a curling broom the infant stole hearts from the live audience and people watching videos
00:38of him online as he marched up and down with it soon this sparked comments that maybe the viral
00:44child will follow his parents into curling professionally after all it's essentially a
00:49family expectation as schwaller herleman's father is an olympic gold medalist and her mother played too
00:54also schwaller's father and uncle are bronze medalists while his brother and cousin are also
01:00involved in the sport number nine minion madness for most people the elegance of figure skating and the
01:08yellow creatures of the minions would seem like a bizarre mix yet tomás llorens guarino sabate makes
01:14it work adding more spanish championships since incorporating the routine in the 2025-2026 season
01:20however coming into the 2026 winter olympics the hopes of guarino and fans were seemingly destroyed
01:27when it emerged that universal pictures which owns the rights to the minions franchise had rejected
01:32the skater referencing it in a short program however and thankfully that devastation was short-lived as
01:38universal u-turned on its decision allowing guarino to perform his iconic routine while he was unable to
01:44finish on the podium in the men's single event the spanish skater did capture our hearts
01:49number eight intimate doping allegations before the 2026 winter olympics even got underway
01:56a strange scandal emerged involving doping as the winter olympics gets underway in italy
02:01a story has emerged about ski jumpers enhancing their physiques to alter their aerodynamics however
02:08rather than being similar to lance armstrong's antics this incident was more intimate reports emerged
02:14that there were concerns that male ski jumpers may have been injecting their lower region with
02:19substances to make it bigger apparently this would have made the jumpers more aerodynamic which
02:24scientists have disputed the point being to enlarge the crotch area so they have to wear larger ski
02:30jumping suits that would aid performance because the larger the ski jumping suit the greater the lift
02:35the greater the drag a ski jumper can have the longer they'll stay in the air the further they will
02:40jump this belief may have been inspired after some involved in norway ski jumping coaching were banned for
02:4618 months in 2026 for manipulating suits especially in the crotch area rather than find the allegations
02:53absurd and embarrassing the u.s ski jumper kevin bickner saw the positive side as more people watched
02:58the sport in the aftermath of the accusations what a will to the degree take this seriously
03:03until otherwise proved uh in another direction on that one number seven yellow ice protest even before the
03:112026 games took place there was controversy with the immigration and customs enforcement going to
03:16italy as olympic organizers ramp up security italy's government is still trying to ease public concern
03:22over the presence of u.s ice agents yet during the olympics it only got more intense as some athletes
03:29criticized the group and donald trump one of the olympians was gus kenworthy who previously represented
03:35the u.s before switching to great britain he uploaded an anti-ice image on his instagram that
03:40contained an expletive and was seemingly written in urine with incredible aim on snow however days later
03:47the freestyle skier uploaded a video where he talked about on top of getting supportive messages
03:52also receiving violent threats and desires from people since publishing the protest photo i think it's
03:57important to say what we feel and stand up for what we believe in and stand up to injustice
04:04number six ice dancing scandal with multiple world championships and other successes in ice dancing
04:10the u.s married team of madison chalk and evan bates was heavy favorites to take gold at the 2026
04:16games
04:16even though they faced competition from france's guillaume caeseron and laurence fournier baudry
04:21for us that was our gold medal performance and we had four of them this week so we could not
04:27be
04:28prouder couldn't be any happier with how we performed yeah we did exactly what we set out to do
04:33and that's all we can do yet despite putting in an incredible performance the french team was
04:38controversially deemed the winners by an overall of 1.43 points putting chalk and bates in second
04:44place the judges were accused of bias against the u.s when awarding points even ignoring mistakes
04:50from the french duo that's really been the talk on social media that they were scored unfairly and
04:56that it really should have been the americans but you know what that's the thing in figure skating
05:00it's not hey i cross the finish line first and i win it is a very subjective sport further scandal
05:06arose when it was found that caeseron was accused of abuse by his former dance partner gabrielle
05:10papadakis and that baudry's former partner and boyfriend nicolai sorensen had been accused of misconduct
05:16number five the unprompted confession usually when an athlete is interviewed on tv after winning a
05:23medal they'll talk about their training and joy however storle hom lagrad went with a different
05:29approach so today i made the choice to tell the world what i did so maybe maybe there is a
05:37chance that
05:37she will show uh see what she really means to me after taking bronze in the men's 20 kilometer
05:45biathlon the norwegian told the norwegian broadcasting corporation about his love life
05:49which included admitting to cheating on someone he was dating causing them to split yikes maybe she will
05:56see it uh at the right time the unnamed ex soon released a statement saying that she wasn't too
06:03pleased to be in this public position and that it was hard to forgive lagrad as such the athlete
06:08soon stated he regretted making his confession public after lagrad added further medals to his
06:13tally rather than talk about that people were wondering what other beans he might spill in
06:18post-performance interviews i hope i don't make anything worse for her but maybe it can help i don't
06:26know and i hope there's a happy ending in the end number four olympics ai slop today generative
06:33ai is a divisive topic some love it and believe it's the future others however believe it's a
06:39plague on society and is taking work from human artists with it being so divisive opponents of
06:45the technology were furious at the winter olympics for utilizing it in promotional material as such much
06:50of their content was referred to as ai slop the social media accounts for the games have posted images
06:56and photos that seem to have been generated or edited with ai yet the use of it didn't remain only
07:01on
07:02the internet the opening ceremony featured an ai animated video of actor sabrina impeccatore
07:07illustrating the game's history annoying the tech's opponents more number three curling cheating
07:13controversy usually a niche sport curling took the world by storm during the 2026 games this is
07:19typically like a tame quiet sport here we've got expletives we've got cheating accusations we've got
07:25maybe sweden setting up a hidden camera what's going on yet it wasn't due to incredible skills but
07:30rather due to a cheating scandal involving the canadian men's team when they faced sweden canada's
07:36mark kennedy was accused of double touching the stone as it reached the hog line including making
07:40illegal contact with the granite he was then recorded swearing at those who accused him he was just
07:45accusing us of cheating and doing something we shouldn't be doing which was total so we uh we
07:51didn't like it we're the wrong team to accuse of cheating in the ninth end of the game and
07:55so we we didn't take it very very kindly to it controversially in a game that is usually known
08:00for its sportsmanlike conduct the swedes had set up their own camera to film the angle needed to see
08:05this suddenly the world became experts in curling and however briefly we were a planet united by
08:12learning what said hog line was theorizing what a little finger tap could possibly do to benefit a
08:17and of course making plenty of memes you know i think everybody in the event all teams just want
08:23to sort of move on and continue to to play and perform on the ice number two the backflip
08:28considering figure skaters have sharp blades on their feet doing a backflip during a performance
08:33has been banned since 1976 by the international skating union resulting in a points penalty however
08:40some athletes such as francis soria bonali in 1998 writing themselves into olympian lore in 2024 the
08:48backflip ban was rescinded causing ilia malinan to rub his hands in excitement as he began using it in
08:53his routines at the 2026 games the skater nicknamed the quad god became the first person to legally land
09:01a backflip on one skate at the olympics as he took part in the team event his performance and backflip
09:06success secured the u.s gold medals before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and
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09:22on notifications number one lindsey von's courageous swan song to be a successful athlete you have to be
09:32driven however von's resolve was something else following a crash at the 2026 world cup the u.s
09:38alpine skier suffered a ruptured acl i i'm not letting this slip through my fingers i'm
09:45i'm gonna do it however she wasn't gonna let that terrible injury stop her from competing at her last
09:51olympics having already come out of retirement after having a knee replacement after going viral
09:56for continuing to compete von did so again only for a more devastating reason that's those are
10:02the cards that i've been dealt in my life and i'm gonna play my cards the best that i can
10:06as she took
10:07part in the women's downhill event von's pole clipped a gate as she took to the air causing her to
10:12lose
10:12balance and crash catastrophically after being airlifted to the hospital it was found she had
10:17broken her leg requiring multiple surgeries to stabilize it was such a yeah a special comeback
10:23dream that she had and it's really sad to see it in this way what 2026 olympics viral moment did
10:30we
10:30miss from the video that resonated with you let us know in the comments
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