Hockeyroos star Rosie Malone has deleted a TikTok video of her Commonwealth Games teammates eyeing off a shirtless male athlete in the Birmingham athletes village.
On Wednesday, the 24-year-old Australian shared footage of a group of Hockeyroos donning green and gold gazing through their window at a man in the adjacent building at Maple Bank Villa.
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“TikTok help me find this boy in the athlete village,” she captioned the video.
The clip registered more than two million views, but has since been taken down from the social media platform after several users accused Malone of invading the man’s privacy, while others questioned how it would be perceived if the genders were reversed.
But Malone quickly allayed concerns, commenting underneath the post: “Don’t worry everyone, he was looking at us smiling. He could see us and was loving it.”
Malone and the Hockeyroos will face Kenya in their first of four group stage matches in Birmingham at 2.30am AEST on Sunday morning.
The Australian team won silver four years ago after losing the 2018 final at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, toppled by New Zealand rivals the Black Sticks 4-1.
“100 per cent I still think about it. The losses that really hurt, you don’t really ever let them go,” Hockeyroos striker Steph Kershaw said.
“I guess they’re like the thing that does motivate you to train a bit harder or to do something when you don’t feel like doing it.
“For me personally, they’re definitely always in the back of my mind.
“I think over the past four years, the team and me especially, we’ve had a lot of learning opportunities with some not so positive performances when it mattered. We’ve had those leanings and I think a lot of us understand more of what is required to perform in the big matches.
“That’s what I’m most excited to see in this tournament, to see how we go when it gets to the semi-finals and the finals”
Hockeyroos teammate Kaitlin Nobbs continued: “It’s definitely fuelling the fire for all the girls in the team.
“I look back at the Commonwealth Games and it definitely hurts knowing that we were so close and so capable of getting that gold medal and just falling short.
“The lesson is we have to keep building and making sure we keep going right to the very end which we weren’t able to do last Commonwealth Games.”
Originally published as Hockeyroos star Rosie Malone deletes controversial TikTok clip of shirtless athlete
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