Maybe by 2016, NBC can graduate to mentioning Mitcham's partner by name. Profile 2000 Olympic Gold winner, Laura Wilkinson, 42, an NBC analyst at the Rio games, will dive for Tokyo medals By Allison Courtney 0 Laura Wilkinson in training for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics which has been postponed until 2021 due to Covid-19. She was a member of three Olympic diving teams, winning a bronze medal in the 3 m springboard in 1976. It wouldn’t be the Olympics without getting frustrated at the tape delay, the flurry of commercials or the number of times that commentators inserted their foot in mouth. At 24, he is far from finished as a diver. Cynthia 'Cindy' Ann Potter (born August 27, 1950) is an American former Olympic diver and diving color commentator.
Mitcham failed to reach the finals and gave some hint of retiring, though he has now backtracked and said he might compete in the 3-meter springboard instead.
They never did mention Fletcher in the video and as the diving resumed, commentator Ted Robinson made an awkward refenence to Mitcham's "friend." Heather N., writing for the Good Men Project, devoted a column to Robinson's choice of words. Rebecca Lowe will anchor NBC’s daytime coverage, while Liam McHugh, Carolyn Manno and Ahmed Fareed will handle NBCSN hosting duties. I thought the piece was solid despite some quibbles. Tirico will also host the Opening Ceremony alongside award-winning journalist Katie Couric, who co-hosted the Opening Ceremony in Sydney, Salt Lake, and Athens. It even showed him embracing his partner, Lachlan Fletcher, in Beijing. In London, with Mitcham trying to repeat his performance, NBC made good, airing a three-minute segment chronicling Mitcham's story during the diving qualifying round. NBC got so much flak that its Olympics head Gary Zwenkel publicly apologized. Given how much the network loves up-close-and-personal stories, it was a glaring omission to ignore him. Mitcham had just come out publicly as gay and won the gold with his mother and boyfriend in the stands. Social media was a buzz during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics particularly the coverage offered by the American broadcaster NBC, whose commentators told millions of people that Alexander the Great came from the nation they referred to as Macedonia which has absolutely nothing to do with historical fact. Four years ago, NBC was roundly and justly criticized for ignoring the back story of Australian diver Matthew Mitcham, who won a stunning gold medal in the men's 10-meter platform diving at the Beijing Olympics.
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