We’re only a few days into the Rio Olympics and Al Trautwig has already had to make a public apology.
The NBC announcerย said Monday that he regretted tweeting that the adoptive mother and father of American gymnastics star Simone Biles areย not her parents.
“I regret that I wasn’t more clear in my wording on the air,” he said in aย carefully-wordedย statement viaย by NBC Sports, the Chicago Tribune reported. “I compounded the error on Twitter, which I quickly corrected. To set the record straight, Ron and Nellie are Simone’s parents.”
Trautwig’s humble apology came after he tweeted, “They may be mom and dad but they are not her parents,” duringย Biles’ routine in response to a Twitter user who wrote: “Stop calling her PARENTS her grandfather and his wife.