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Team event gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics: Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford
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Olympic champion would have been a possibility.
Two-time world champion.
CBS commentator.
Or simply: Canadian.
But the commentators Simon Reed and Nicky Slater could not think of anything better - apparently out of bruised pride - than to describe Meagan Duhamel as "Bitch from Canada".
Reed and Slater were scheduled to provide technical support for the live stream of the World Figure Skating Championships currently taking place in Montpellier.
In front of the microphones, which were probably still switched on by mistake, the duo then insulted the Canadian team Olympic champion and two-time pair skating world champion Duhamel.
They lost their job with it.
The world ice skating association ISU separated from both with immediate effect.
"We are shocked by the language of the two commentators," said the association in a statement.
Duhamel, himself a CBS expert, had previously criticized the ISU's choice of Reed and Slater as commentators, writing on Twitter that there were "better options" than this duo, who apparently admitted they didn't watch figure skating that often.
Later, after the insult, the 36-year-old wrote: 'Simon Reed and the President of the ISU have personally apologized to me and I do not feel a public apology is necessary at this time.
I appreciate and respect your apologies.”
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