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You’re right - a commentator mentioned the coaches impact in passing and now Jezebel’s trying to make it as if NBC went out of their way to discredit the athlete. She’ll still be the one standing on the podium and they’ll be etching her name in the record books no matter how effective (or not) her coach turned out to…

They mostly focused the camera on him he was cheering very loudly and were discussing his role as a coach and how excited and animated he always is at meets. I think there are some concerns about the guy but I didn’t ffind the coverage last night to be out of line. They frequently do talk about and do little mini…

Funny thing is all the people making a big fuss about this wouldn’t be doing so if it had been a female coach getting all the praises for the gold medal her male athlete had won.

I’m not defending the unspoken sexism of the commentator as much as I’m pointing out that the commentator’s job is to provide storylines that the public can grasp onto.

No, but you remember ALL of Kobe Bryant’s successes being attributed to Shaq and Phil Jackson. And there were all those wins that Tiger Woods had while he was coached by Butch Harmon. As soon as Harmon left (and Tiger started losing), people started questioning whether Tiger would have won without Butch.