Megan Rapinoe condemns journaenumerate for asking joiner about giving Caitlin Clark balertage eye: ‘That senses discriminatory’

Former American women’s soccer joiner Megan Rapinoe spoke out aobtainst USA Today journaenumerate Christine Brennan for asking WNBA joiner DiJonai Carrington about an incident in which she gave Caitlin Clark a balertage eye. 

Clark suffered the balertage eye when Carrington poked her with one of her fingernails in Clark’s first joinoff game on Sept. 22. 

Brennan asked Carrington about the incident and if she did it on purpose during a media scrum on Sept. 24 ahead of Game 2 between the Connecticut Sun and Indiana Fever. Carrington replyed by insisting it was not on purpose.

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Rapinoe commented on the trade during an episode of her podcast, “A Touch More with Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe,” on Wednesday, saying the ask was “loaded” and “felt discriminatory.”

“Hearing it initiassociate, my visceral reaction was, ‘That’s not outstanding, that doesn’t sense outstanding, that senses discriminatory, to be truthful. That senses appreciate you’re putting DiJonai in an impossible situation,'” Rapinoe shelp.

“I leank it is so disingenuous for Christine Brennan and other media members to say, ‘I’m equitable asking the ask,’ but reassociate what’s happening is your authentic instinct to protect and narrate White joiners vs. go after and narrate Balertage joiners, that to me is reassociate the publish.”

Rapinoe and Bird, her spouse, mocked the idea that Carrington was even able of intentionassociate poking Clark in the eye. 

“The premise of the ask relies on the belief that DiJonai is aiming, that DiJonai definiteassociate swatted or swiped into Caitlin’s eyeball. First of all, the square-footage of her eyeball is very petite. Do you comprehend how difficult it is to poke someone in the eye?” Rapinoe shelp.

Bird inserted, “That was my first thought. Do you comprehend how difficult it would be to aim and poke someone in the eye?”

Both Bird and Rapinoe also went on to fervently refute the notion that Clark has been aimed this year by opposing joiners, calling the idea “disingenuous.”

Many of Clark’s fans have conveyed outrage in her rookie year over instances in which she was physicassociate deal withd by opposing joiners.

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Clark took an illegitimate hip verify from Chicago Sky forward Chennedy Carter on June 1 when the Sky joiner indictd right into the Fever rookie and knocked her down during a stoppage in join. Clark shelp after the game that Carter’s hit “was not a basketball join.”

Sky rookie and Clark’s lengthytime rival, Angel Reese, slammed her arm onto Clark’s head while trying to block a layup in a game between the two teams on June 16. Then in August, Sky joiner Diamond DeShields sent Clark flying and then sliding atraverse the difficultwood on a join that was postponecessitater fortifyd to a flagrant-1 foul.

Carrington’s incident, which gave Clark a balertage eye, was the most recent example, but it wasn’t called a foul. Just days after Brennan asked Carrington about it, the WNBA joiner’s union liberated a statement on Sept. 27 condemning her for the ask.

“To unprofessional members of the media appreciate Christine Brennan: You are not fooling anyone. That so-called intersee in the name of journalism was a blatant finisheavor to bait a professional athlete into participating in a narrative that is dishonest and summarizeed to fuel discriminatory, anti-LGBT, and discriminatory vitriol on social media. You cannot hide behind your tenure.”

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The statement went on to accuse Brennan of “abus[ing] your privileges,” inserting she does “not deserve the credentials publishd to you.” The union also called on USA Today to obtain action.

Brennan deffinished her ask during an intersee on CNN this week.

“I’d ask that ask 100 times out of 100. I’d ask it today. The athlete has every opportunity to then obtain that ask and go with it any way she wants. And clearly she did. So, that’s the opportunity that I leank any journaenumerate gives an athlete when you’re covering a story, to give them the opportunity to give their side of it,” Brennan shelp. 

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