BEIJING, August 12 Xinhua News Agency reported that Byron McDonald, a commentator on Canadian CBC TV, privately commented that China 14-year-old female swimmer Ai Han Yan "went out like a stinking pig and died like a pig" during the interval of explaining the women's 4x200 freestyle relay final of the Rio Olympic Games, but this sentence was heard by audiences all over the world because the microphone was not available.

The literal translation of this English sentence is "you stink when you come out and die like a pig."

However, according to the online Cambridge English Dictionary, "like stink" is a British slang, which is usually used to describe hard work. According to this explanation, it can be translated as "I started to work hard, and then I died" (describing people who can't plan is equivalent to "brainless" in spoken English).

Although the meaning behind does not contain obvious racial discrimination, there is no doubt that such an expression is schadenfreude, uneducated and even contrary to the Olympic spirit, which should never appear on live TV.

The Canadian people have given up on this. Many netizens left messages on the Internet, demanding that CBC apologize for this.

Then the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation realized the seriousness of the situation and issued an apology statement:

"We sincerely apologize for Byron's remarks. It needs to be clarified that Byron's remarks are only aimed at the performance of athletes, not at the individual athletes. However, that wording was inappropriate, and Byron was very sorry for his words. "

However, McDonald himself did not make an apology statement. Many people think that he should be fired.

According to media reports, MacDonald himself is a swimming coach and teaches at many universities in Canada. According to the information updated by the University of Toronto in March this year, McDonald was a member of the Canadian swimming national team, and he himself said that he would be a swimming coach until 2024.