Winter Olympics: NBC commentators blasted for coverage of Mikaela Shiffrin’s misery ‘horrible to watch’

Supporters of Mikaela Shiffrin circled the wagons around the twice disqualified skier by comparing NBC’s Winter Olympics commentary to their coverage of Simone Biles’s Summer Olympic failure.

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The network was criticised for focusing its camera on Shiffrin as she sat slumped on the slopes in an iconic image the two-time gold medalist later tweeted out herself.

"My hope for every human is that they find another human who finds a way to love, understand, and heal them in the way @AleksanderKilde has done and continues to for me," she said in response to an Instagram post.

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Her boyfriend, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, earlier said the pressure put on athletes was “enormous” and called for support for “just normal people” like Shiffrin.

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