“We recognize that the remark was derogatory and we apologize,” said a spokesman for the BBC.
“Do you think the father Bartoli told her when she was little,” You will never be a gun, you’ll never be a Sharapova, so you have to hang on and beat you “?” asked John Inverdale his listeners during a radio show Saturday, after the success of the French in the final Wimbledon against Germany’s Sabine Lisicki.
This action earned him a barrage of criticism on the social networking site Twitter under the hashtag # everydaysexism (sexism every day.)
Bartoli, aged 28, played down the incident. “It’s not important. Yes I’m not blonde. This is a fact. Is what I dreamed of becoming a model? No, sorry. But is what I dreamed of winning Wimbledon? Yes. Absolutely, “said she responded.
John Inverdale said he had said that the tone of the joke, adding that he was a big fan of the player who won the London grass his first Grand Slam tournament.
” It is a model for people who were not born with all the athletes babies’ attributes, he said
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