Template:Did you know nominations/Toby Olubi
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The result was: promoted by Schwede66 talk 01:50, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
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Toby Olubi, Can't Touch This (game show)
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- ... that Toby Olubi has claimed to have funded his Olympic bobsled career by being "shot out of a cannon"? Source: https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/sport/national/15893627.human-cannonball-toby-olubi-turns-focus-bobsleigh-duties-pyeongchang/
- ALT1: ... that Toby Olubi has claimed to have funded his Olympic bobsled career by becoming "a human cannonball"?
- ALT2: ... that Toby Olubi funded his Olympic bobsled career with £12,000 from Deal or No Deal?
- ALT3: ... that prior to broadcast, the "unspecified marque" on Can't Touch This had been used as an example of why British game show prizes were "rubbish"?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Claude_Hamilton_Verity
- Comment: I can't get over The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, and even the BBC all printing as gospel that he actually did it - he was in fact shot out of a catapult. Where's your fact checking?
5x expanded by Launchballer (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 231 past nominations.
Launchballer 13:13, 1 June 2024 (UTC).
Good work Launchballer. 5x expansion, article is properly sourced, and hook is interesting. 48JCLTALK 01:44, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- This had already been through admin checks. I've pulled it out of Q3 and put it into the Olympics SOHA. Schwede66 23:31, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- ALT4 ... that Toby Olubi helped fund his Olympic bobsled career by being "shot out of a cannon"?