Olympic Gymnast Runs Up A Nearly $7,000 Cellphone Bill Playing Pokemon Go In Rio
- Publish Date
- Wednesday, 3 August 2016, 11:54AM
When you've gotta catch 'em all, you've got to catch 'em all no matter where you are...
Japanese gymnastics great Kohei Uchimura learned the hard way that it will cost him to make like Ash Ketchum during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Uchimura, the six-time world champion, ran up a 500,000-yen ($6800) cellphone bill playing Pokemon Go thanks to international roaming charges he incurred because the game isn't completely supported yet in Rio.
Hopefully he caught a Mew...
via NZ Herald