Diana Nyad
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We were there, and...
The name doesn't need to be brought up, but one of the producers put a giant blow-up screen of a Russian female shot putter.
And if you know the shot put, you start, you know, sort of facing backwards.
So you're, you know, you're bent down and your butt is up in the air facing the field.
Yeah.
And then you do your few steps and you twist around and now you face the front.
So she was bent over.
She's the world champion.
And in front of all these people, he made a joke and went up behind her picture as if he were to unzip his pants.
No.
And, you know, approach her from the back.
And you know what?
I can't imagine, Julia, that I and several other women in the room didn't stand up at that meeting and say, no, no, no.
We are covering world-class women athletes.
You cut that shit out.
But I didn't.
I sat there, and I watched that sexism, and that happened.
That was dramatic.
That was visual.
That was repulsive.