NBC Sports commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir participated in a video spoof of 2018 U.S. national figure skating champion and Olympic team bronze medalist Bradie Tennell last month in which a vulgar term for a woman’s groin was used, as well as a joke about a sexual affair.
U.S. Figure Skating, which has been rocked by a series of high-profile allegations of sexual abuse over the past year and a half, issued a statement Thursday evening saying that it “does not condone the descriptions used in this parody,” according to spokesperson Barbara Reichert.
NBC Sports spokesperson Dan Masonson offered a more muted response, emphasizing that it was a spoof, adding, “In retrospect, this sketch could have been completed with generic footage.