BBC had to apologize after a Saturday sports journalists stars of British radio held sexist against the French Marion Bartoli, who won Wimbledon. He specifically said it was not a “gun.”
“Do you think the father 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 his listeners during a radio show Saturday, after the success of the French in the Wimbledon final against Germany’s Sabine Lisicki.
action earned him a barrage of criticism on the social network Twitter, under the hashtag # everydaysexism (sexism every day).
“We recognize that the remark was derogatory and we apologize,” said a spokesman for the BBC.
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. “This is a model for people who have not seen the day with all the athletes babies attributes”, he said.
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