--- title: Olympics 2018: U.S. Curler Looks Like Super Mario Meme description: The 2018 Winter Olympics only just begun but the Internet has already spotted the first hilarious lookalike of the PyeongChang Games. canonical: https://time.com/5141448/olympics-2018-us-curler-super-mario-meme/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-09T16:24:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:28.519Z og:title: The Internet Is Convinced This U.S. Olympic Curler Looks Exactly Like Super Mario og:description: Mamma mia! og:url: https://time.com/5141448/olympics-2018-us-curler-super-mario-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta95f2b339b708313/698926e28fd2ee4f1335aa11/olympics-curling-super-mario.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Olympics-Curling-Super-Mario og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Convinced This U.S. Olympic Curler Looks Exactly Like Super Mario twitter:description: Mamma mia! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta95f2b339b708313/698926e28fd2ee4f1335aa11/olympics-curling-super-mario.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Convinced This Olympic Curler Looks Exactly Like Super Mario > Sponsored content. 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Matt Hamilton of the United States delivers a stone in the Curling Mixed Doubles Round Robin Session 1 at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics on February 8, 2018. Ronald Martinez/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 9, 2018 4:24 PM UTC The [2018 Winter Olympics](http://time.com/5141249/olympics-opening-ceremony-photos/) may have only just begun but the Internet has already spotted the first hilarious [doppelgänger](http://time.com/4459611/2016-rio-olympics-celebrity-doppelgangers/) of the PyeongChang Games. After [U.S. curler Matt Hamilton](http://time.com/5092825/curling-sport-terms-rules-history/) took the ice to compete alongside his sister, Rebecca Hamilton, in mixed doubles curling on Thursday, some viewers were quick to point out that he bears an uncanny resemblance to famed Nintendo plumber Mario. [Twitter user Jon](https://twitter.com/douglasturtle/status/961395408223191040) seems to have been the first to take note of the similarity online, tweeting out a picture of Hamilton with the caption, “Just watching the Olympics during my night class and we have Mario on our curling team!!” The official Team U.S.A. account then came through in the clutch, creating a side-by-side comparison of Hamilton and Hamilton with Mario’s head delivering a stone during one of Thursday’s round robin matchups. “Spot the difference,” the caption read. By Friday, even Hamilton himself was on board with his red hat-wearing mustachioed lookalike, sharing the meme to promote his team’s face-off with Sweden. Mamma mia, here we go again. > [](https://twitter.com/douglasturtle/status/961395408223191040) > [](https://twitter.com/TeamUSA/status/961419657960935424) > [](https://twitter.com/MattJamilton/status/961740197519085568) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5141448/olympics-2018-us-curler-super-mario-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5141448/olympics-2018-us-curler-super-mario-meme/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Convinced This Olympic Curler Looks Exactly Like Super Mario","datePublished":"2018-02-09T16:24:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:28.519Z","description":"Mamma mia!","url":"https://time.com/5141448/olympics-2018-us-curler-super-mario-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta95f2b339b708313/698926e28fd2ee4f1335aa11/olympics-curling-super-mario.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta95f2b339b708313/698926e28fd2ee4f1335aa11/olympics-curling-super-mario.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Olympics-Curling-Super-Mario","caption":"Matt Hamilton of the United States delivers a stone in the Curling Mixed Doubles Round Robin Session 1 at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics on February 8, 2018.","creditText":"Ronald Martinez/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5141448/olympics-2018-us-curler-super-mario-meme/","name":"The Internet Is Convinced This Olympic Curler Looks Exactly Like Super Mario"}}]}] ```