Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter A BBC commentator corrected her co-host after he accidentally misgendered an athlete live on air.
Team GB long jumper Jazmin Sawyers, who is commentating for the BBC this Olympics after an injury prevented her from taking part in the games, was quick to rectify her colleague Steve Backley’s faux pas after Backley accidentally referred to a shot putter with an incorrect pronoun.
Sawyers and Backley, a former Team GB javelin thrower, were commentating the shot put together on Thursday morning local time in the Stade de France when Backley made the misstep.
Referring to U.S. shot putter Raven Saunders, he said: “The colorful character of Raven Saunders [is] back. Good to see her back, sort of.
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