For most Olympic athletes, they are congratulated when they come home, medal winner or not. It should always be an honor to represent one’s country in sports.
For Emma Meesseman and the Belgium women’s national basketball team, they encountered the exact opposite scenario after their team advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
All that said, I never expected a sportscaster, in 2021 to give sexist remarks on women’s basketball players like some bot-like trolls do to WNBA players, even off the air.
Earlier today, Belgian sportscaster Eddy Demarez, who works for Sporza, a Dutch language network, held a Facebook Live on the Belgian team’s Olympians as they returned to Brussels from Tokyo.