"Died Like A Pig" - CBC Forced To Apologize For Commentator's Poor Choice Of Words During Olympic Coverage

Story out of Rio de Janeiro: 

CBC apologized online and on-air late Wednesday night after one of its commentators said a defeated Chinese swimmer “died like a pig” during a race.

The incident occurred after the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay final, when it seems colour commentator Byron MacDonald thought he wasn’t on-air and said: “The little 14-year-old from China dropped the ball, baby. Too excited, went out like stink, died like a pig. Thanks for that.”

CBC Olympic host Scott Russell apologized later on the broadcast. The network also faced immediate backlash online, as scores of social media users condemned MacDonald’s comment to CBC’s Olympic Twitter account.

“We apologize the comment on a swim performance made it to air. It was an unfortunate choice of words – we’re sorry it happened,” CBC tweeted to users who were upset. Cont.

Story from - National Post