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Alex Bilodeau’s Twitter snafu catches Team Canada player with pants down

A photo taken inside Team Canada's locker room and posted on social media by Alex Bilodeau on Jan. 5, 2014.
A photo taken inside Team Canada's locker room and posted on social media by Alex Bilodeau on Jan. 5, 2014. Alex Bilodeau/Facebook/Screenshot

TORONTO – How can retired Canadian freestyle skier Alex Bilodeau do any wrong? After all, he’s a double Olympic gold medalist who’s represented his country proud.

But sometimes the best in the world make mistakes too and inadvertently posting a naked picture of a Team Canada player on Twitter following a gold medal victory is one of them.

Bilodeau was celebrating Canada’s world junior championship win inside the home team’s locker room at the Air Canada Centre when he posted a photograph of himself with three other players online.

READ MORE: Canada wins gold with 5-4 victory over Russia

However, the photo was noticed more so for one specific player in the background — which didn’t take long for some to notice.

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The post, which was simultaneously posted on Facebook, garnered up to 763 likes and 61 comments before it was eventually deleted Tuesday evening.

Alex Bilodeau/Facebook/Screenshot

Bilodeau also removed the post on Twitter but later replaced it with a much more family friendly cropped version.

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