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At 7-foot-9, Canada's Olivier Rioux is world's tallest teen, intriguing basketball project

29.10.2024 - 19:54 cbc.ca

Walking from his apartment to classes and then to the University of Florida's basketball facility, Olivier Rioux poses for dozens — sometimes hundreds — of pictures a day.

Vertical shots, of course. Rioux won't fit in the frame any other way. The seven-foot-nine Rioux is the ultimate BMOC. He's actually the Biggest Man On Campus, any campus.

The Florida freshman, a happy-go-lucky Canadian who owns a spot in the Guinness record book as the world's tallest teenager, also will make basketball history when he plays for the 21st-ranked Gators this season.

The cheerful guy known as "Oli" will become the tallest to play college hoops, supplanting seven-foot-seven Kenny George of UNC Asheville (2006-08).

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