Greek triple jumper, Voula Papachristou, apologized for
“tasteless” tweet after nation’s Olympic committee expelled her from the London
Olympic Games.
The “tasteless” Tweet was sent on Sunday by Papachristou
stating, “With so many Africans in Greece… At least the West Nile mosquitoes
will eat home made food!!”
The Hellenic Olympic Committee in response to Papachristou
statement and her expulsion from the Olympic games explained, “ (Papachristou is)
placed outside the Olympic team for statements contrary to the values and ideas
of the Olympic movement.
Her apology the
following week on Twitter stated:
“I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the
unfortunate and tasteless joke I published in my personal Twitter account. I am
very sorry and ashamed for the negative responses I triggered, since I never
wanted to offend anyone, or to encroach human rights.”
With 800 million more Facebook
users and over 400 million more Twitter users than the last Olympic games
(according to USA Today),
social media is more venerated than ever.
People especially public figures seem to be unaware of how impersonal personal pages are now. That had to have been devastating to have worked soo hard to be a part of such a movement, only to be excluded because of a few irresponsible unthoughtful characters.
ReplyDelete