The Guardian - * References made to ‘Ellie White’ and ‘Abbie Miedema’
* Eurosport commentary done by Olympic Broadcasting Services
Team GB’s Kim Little and Rachel Daly have criticised “disappointing” commentary in which players have been misnamed, as they prepared to play in Friday’s quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics.
The errors came in a broadcast of the women’s football tournament on Eurosport, whose coverage has come in for widespread criticism. During Team GB’s game against Canada their top scorer, Ellen White, was called “Ellie White”, the Arsenal and the Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema was renamed “Abbie Miedema” and said to play in the “Women’s Soccer League” instead of the Women’s Super League, and the Scotland midfielder Little was described as having “140 caps for England”. Continue reading...
