[GT] Thursday August 11

[craigwd]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Oh with the whole "OR - to the American, 1 - to Penny"? I think that was actually the scoreboard at the event itself, not him. When they showed Penny's parents in the crowd, everybody looked confused, including the people holding American flags in front of them.

...unless you're referring to another gaffe he had during that race that I'm mis-remembering.

He kept referring to Emily Overholt being in the race.

[loob job]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Unfortunately he screwed that one up too. Gotta feel for the guy.

Yeah I think the Canadian gaffe was worst than mixing up Phelps and Lachty (sp?). To call Oleksiak a different name completely the last 50 metres is brutal. Overholt (sp?) wasn't even in the race, it kinda wrecked the last bit for me as this "Overholt" girl was supposedly making this huge move and I was looking at Oleksiak thinking she was getting overtaken by someone. You are calling it for Canada Elliot make sure you get the Canadian girls name right, we wouldn't have cared if you only mentioned her and no one else. Man that was brutal.

[edslunch]

NM, piling on

[Enoch Root]

I dismissed the Overholt mistake as being an echo of the original Phelps-fiasco. No doubt he was reeling after that, the guy's only human.

I could imagine him going to hurl between races after that mess.

He had a tough night - happens to everyone.

[J79]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

Also, Friedman's Phelps gaffe has gone viral internationally. Combined with the pig comments it has not been a great couple days for the CBC.

Yep, it was just showed on Dutch tv.

[psyang]

Originally Posted by sharkov

Penny is going to more famous than her brother

lol - someone edited Jamie's wiki page (spoilered for size):

Spoiler!