A veteran sports commentator has been sacked from his Olympics role after making a sexist remark about Australian female swimmers following their gold medal win.
As the 4x100m freestyle relay team were making their way off the pool deck in Paris, Bob Ballard said they were “finishing up”, adding “you know what women are like… hanging around, doing their make up”.
The clip quickly went viral and broadcaster Eurosport later said he had been removed from the commentary line-up.
Ballard has yet to comment publicly on his remarks.
Why would someone get upset about that? Is it not Czechia now?
I don’t know whether this is a joke or not (Poe’s law and all), so I will assume this is a genuine question:
Because they were about to say Czechoslovakia, I’d assume. The country that hasn’t existed anymore for a long time.
edit: grammar fix