Sunday, July 7, 2013

Bartoli "not a gun", BBC apologizes - dh.be

L.Be Published Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 12:53 – Last Updated Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 12:54

Tennis BBC admits that the remark “was derogatory.”

“Think sure the father (Marion) Bartoli told her when she was little: ‘You’ll never be a gun, you’ll never be a Sharapova, so you have to hang on and fight?’ “asked John Inverdale, a sports journalists stars of the BBC, after the victory of the French in the final of Wimbledon on Saturday. The remark had generated a wave of indignant reactions on Twitter under the hashtag # everydaysexism.

It’s not important. Yeah, I’m not blonde. This is a fact. Did I dreamed of becoming a model No, sorry. But is that j ‘ I dreamed of winning Wimbledon Yes. Absolutely “, then reacting the tennis player of 28 years, quoted by LeParisien.fr.

Saturday night, the BBC eventually apologized via his spokesman: “We recognize that remark was derogatory so we apologize.” the offending journalist ensure then that he was a big fan of Marion Bartoli, “ a model for people who were not born with all the attributes of athletes babies . “

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