During a segment of Eurosport’s coverage last night, commentator Bob Ballard made an inappropriate comment,
When will these people ever learn? Why aren’t they being given some training?”
Well, the women just finishing up. You know what women are like… hanging around, doing their make-up."
Wow. I don't keep track of that kind of stuff... it's an honour really,
It's a really special moment to stand on the podium with the other three girls, and represent the other girls from our heat swim,
Please know this completely cut across my values."
Not your fault. The studio spent the 10 minutes prior to that talking to a chef & then crossed just as the anthems started!"
I watched this and you handled it professionally, made reference to it - don’t worry at all. You can’t always control when they’re going to ask you to broadcast. Keep up the good work, not an issue!"
Hearing one of the BBC presenters introducing the hockey as ‘England v Spain’ it’s GREAT BRITAIN not just ENGLAND #Olympic2024."
Yeah this is an incredibly important event and the anthems are just playing so I'm trying to be respectful of that as well, but that is a heavy load to bear.
I’m so sorry I was talking over the national anthems today before the GB v Spain Men’s hockey game on the BBC today
Apologies for crashing the anthem here but let’s just put this in context. Three years ago they lost to India in the quarter-finals, but since then there’s been quite a lot of change to this squad.”
Every dive counts and Australia could have got a medal."
Someone tell the BBC the Olympics are on. They’ve turned it into a talk show #BBCOlympics."