The Daily Express celebrates Britain’s record haul of gold medals, putting yesterday’s four medallists on the cover: Alistair Brownlee, Laura Trott and Chris Hoy. But who’s that representing the dressage? Why, it’s Adelinde Cornelissen, Edward Gal and Anky van Grunsven of the Dutch team, with their orange colouring and bronze medals delightfully on show.
Oh dear, Daily Express. Oh dear.
Update:
Double oh dear. The Mirror made the same mistake as well – twice:
Oh dear. It’s even worsein the Mirror’s centre spread. (ht
@heery) twitter.com/suttonnick/sta…— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) August 8, 2012
Oh no. Has the Mirror made the same mistake as the Daily Express? twitter.com/suttonnick/sta…
— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) August 8, 2012
It seems likely that the blame lies at least partially with a mis-captioned tag from a photo agency.