Black child gymnast being overlooked in medal ceremony?

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Anyone else horrified at this?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12554637/Gymnastics-Ireland-embroiled-racism-row-young-black-competitor-skipped-medal-ceremony-Olympic-champion-Simone-Biles-condemns-heartbreaking-incident.html#comments

i saw that on twitter
dreadful

I'd need more than a Daily Mail story/twitter comments before I believed this.

google will help you @IvorTheEngineDriver

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/family-of-girl-snubbed-at-medal-ceremony-want-public-apology-from-gymnastics-ireland/a726462541.html

I was appalled. I watched the video earlier today. What on earth was the thinking behind this? Give the girl her medal and don't be so out and out rude and disrespectful to a child.

it actually happened in 2022 and she did receive her medal https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/viral-video-of-young-black-gymnast-facing-discrimination-during-ireland-medal-ceremony-sparks-outrage-article-103897910

Good.

@IvorTheEngineDriver

WHY is your default to deny such blatant racism?

Here you go:

https://www.gymnasticsireland.com/news/gymnastics-ireland-statement-re-gymstart-event-march-2022

A less Daily Heil take on it.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/09/23/gymnastics-ireland-apologises-to-girl-over-medal-ceremony-at-centre-of-racism-claim/

@Willmafrockfit the mediation and apology was only resolved in August 2023.

She received the medal AFTER her parents complained and after the ceremony was over.

The Irish gymnastics response was pisspoor. That poor child. Gobsmacking in this day and age.

There's an actual video you can watch

The cruelty was staggering.

Afterwards and not during the ceremony

Poor bairn, she would have felt crushed.

extremely upsetting.

it does say she received the medal before she left the field of play, i can't copy it.

I can’t believe people around her, such as the photographer, not speaking up for her at the time. Whether it was a genuine mistake or not.

It's heartbreaking.
She's so excited, you can see her huge smile. the poor kid that official just left her out and walked off with one medal in her hand. It can't have been anything other than racism, it's so purposely done.

I've seen the pictures and don't want to watch the video, would be even more upsetting.

That poor little girl imagine how she felt being ignored. 😪

From what I read the coach just said it was an “oversight”. I mean come on you walk completely past someone in a line up is not an oversight

By the sounds of it the punishment of the official was pretty much non existent. Yes she is not a registered coach anymore and has to enter mediation with the family but it all seems a very laid back response from Gymnastics Ireland

It’s outrageous. I struggle to get my head round someone doing this. Poor girl.😔

Poor girl. She's stood right there in the line being totally ingnored! I can't make out what the commentator is saying, is she reading out the names as the medals are being given?

Makes me so sad watching that. That woman must have a heart of stone.

Poor girl. How the official can say she forgot or any other shit excuse when she clearly looks directly at her on more than one occasion is beyond me! My heart goes to that poor kid.