Black girl at centre of Irish gymnastics race row ‘badly let down’, says ministry [video]
Black girl at centre of Irish gymnastics race row ‘badly let down’, says ministry [video]
Statement comes as it emerges that head of Ireland’s sporting authority told family girl’s treatment was not racist
Video of the event in March 2022 shows a judge handing out medals for participation to a line of young gymnasts, but ignoring the only black girl. A photographer, coach and other officials fail to intervene. A mediation settlement reached with the family involved the judge taking anti-racism training.
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“[May] said it wasn’t a racist incident at all, the medals just got tangled,” said Ken McCue, who was co-founder of Sari and has been helping the family.
???
But when she untangled them she knowingly skipped the black kid. She even stopped like she was going back but didn't
knowingly
Entirely an assumption on your part, no one here can read her mind.
She even stopped like she was going back but didn't
Maybe because she lost her focus from the medals being tangled, looked up and saw the face she had just looked at and assumed that was the last kid she put the medal on.
Plenty of people make a mistake like that. Something breaks their focus, and when they come back to their work they forget which document they were working on and either redo the same one or skip one without realizing.
Come on now