Yesterday, there was national outrage in Belgium after Sporza commentator Eddy Demarez said homophobic and sexist insults at the women’s national basketball team in a hot mic during a Facebook Live as they were flying into Brussels from Tokyo. He was suspended by VRT, the Belgian Dutch-language public television broadcasting authority, which is the parent organization of Sporza because of the incident.
The team, through the Belgian Basketball federation issued a statement in Dutch and French on Sunday evening (or afternoon in D.C. time) on the incident. Here are the highlights of that statement:
- The Cats are obviously not happy with it.