[GT] Wednesday August 10

[Weitz]

Loving this ping pong.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by V

Well, there's the apology.

Haha what'd they say? I must've tuned out right before they acknowledged it

[V]

Just that it was an unfortunate choice of words.

[Wormius]

The comments didn't seem racist to me, like some commenters on Twitter are suggesting. The comments were kind of mean, but that was all I thought.

[GirlySports]

if the girl wasn't 14, the comments would have been fine.

[V]

Haha, everything is racist now.

[Sainters7]

Yeah, I don't get how that's racist. If anything, if someone was going to overreact, you think it would be PETA in that situation. But even that is a stretch.

If anything it just made him sound crass, which may hurt his image with more sensitive types. But nothing really offensive was actually said, in terms of having a particular group coming after you.

[GirlySports]

i said it in a post during the race 'the chinese need to die off'

course i'm not on tv :P

[GirlySports]

if he had said 'the chinese who swam 3rd' or used her name instead of 'the young 14 year old' it would have been fine.

but he referenced her as 'the 14 year old' throughout the race so that's the context

[InBurkeWeTrust]

When's the next event Canada will be in? Just really following those events

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Is there anywhere that has a listing of who is showing what?

All I see is "TSN day 6 coverage".

nm. found list on CBC site.

Wrong day.

[craigwd]

Byron apologized on camera. It looked like he really felt bad about it.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by craigwd

Byron apologized on camera. It looked like he really felt bad about it.

yup

http://olympics.cbc.ca/video/vod/cbc...e-swimmer.html