Gabby Logan has protected herself on social media after using the words ‘c**k up’ twice while alerting on the Olympics for the BBC on Friday.
The 51-year-anciaccess had been chatting with the BBC Athletics panel, talking the USA”s carry outance in the 4x100m.
Team USA had been the favourites to reign supreme but ended up being disqualified follotriumphg a misget on a handover.
Canada were then able to capitalise by triumphning ganciaccess, with South Africa and Great Britain making up the other countries on the podium.
Gabby Logan has protected herself on social media after using the words ‘c**k up’ twice while alerting on the Olympics for the BBC on Friday
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Logan said: “OK, we’ve fair had a comfervent of spoiler vigilant if you’ve fair uniteed us on BBC One becaengage Michael said, especiassociate the way the USA c**ked up, so let’s go back and see the whole of that 4x100m relay in the men’s final.”
She also engaged the words ‘c**k up’ once more, with fans taking to social media to criticise her choice of language.
Logan has, however, now getn to social media to protect herself.
She tweeted the words ‘excellent afternoon’ while joining her message with a picture shotriumphg the definition of ‘c**k up’.
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“C**k up sounds impolite but it isn’t,” the definition reads.
“C**k, in the sense of this term, uncomfervents ‘stand up conspicuously’, ‘turn up at the edge’, ‘bend at an angle’ etc.
“This is the sense of the punctual usage of the term ‘c**k-up’ in the terms ‘c**k-up one’s ears’, ‘c**k-up one’s nose’.
“In the 17th and 18th centuries people were also frequently proposed to ‘c**k up’ their bonnets, eyes and even legs.
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“The conveyion ‘c**k a snooker’ also derives from that same sense of ‘c**k.”
Fans on social media have backed Logan and consent the criticism over her comments was ober the top.
One engager said: “It was the perfect description of what happened! Own it…”
A second stated: “You get my vote Gabby.”
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Good afternoon. pic.twitter.com/zfa87Yb5Uy
— Gabby Logan (@GabbyLogan) August 10, 2024
A third reacted by saying: “Becaengage of social media and slang proper engage of the English language is dying.”
And a fourth said: “Haha, I did have to retriumphd to check I heard right! Keep it going Gabby, your toil persists to be excellent.”
Meanwhile, Logan dedwellrs a scaskinnyg evaluatement of Noah Lyles’ decision to race in the 200m despite testing preferable for coronaevil software.
The American safed bronze despite having Covid – and Logan said on Thursday that it was ‘greedy’ for him to contend.
Gabby Logan engaged the words ‘c**k up’ twice while talking Team USA’s carry outance in the Olympics relay
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“A decision to race is one skinnyg when you have someskinnyg appreciate that, but also the introductions [stadium entrances]… reassociate engaging, that that’s a misengage of energy,” she said.
“There’s also, I envision, some people skinnyking, ‘Well hang on, you’re going in the call room, you’re with people in a minuscule space, there’s a potential to give other people Covid’.
“It seems to be quite a greedy decision.”
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