Caption: Katinka Hosszu Featured Image Credit: Getty
It's 2016 and everyone is aware that sexism should well and truly be a thing of the past.
To make any assumptions based in any way on an individual's sex in the 21st century is deplorable, disrespectful and, frankly, inexcusable.
Dan Hicks is therefore being widely criticised in the USA after the commentator for the NBC television network used some badly chosen words on Saturday.
Following Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu's gold medal in the women's 400 metre individual medley at the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Hicks did not think through what he was saying.
Hosszu had just smashed the world record on her way to victory but Hicks was instead seemingly trying to shift credit to her coach and husband, Shane Tusup.
As the camera showed Tusup in the wake of Hosszu's victory, Hicks could be heard to say, 'And there's the man responsible'.
The world of social media was understandably not impressed.
Hicks later said: "With live TV, there are often times you look back and wished you had said things differently ... It is impossible to tell Katinka's story accurately without giving appropriate credit to Shane, and that's what I was trying to do."
Still, maybe think before you speak next time, Shane!
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