A Certain French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie was reduced to tears after being booed on the podium while he received his silver medal.
Lavillenie had been booed by the crowd during Monday's competition, as he battled Brazilian Thiago Braz da Silva for gold, giving a thumbs-down gesture to the cameras as he prepared for an attempt.
After the medal ceremony, IAAF president Lord Coe , vice-president Sergey Bubka and Da Silva attempted to console Lavillenie, who simply wrote "no words" in his Twitter account of what happened.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach described the crowd's behaviour as "shocking" and "unacceptable at the Olympics".
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