US EditionDanika Mason: Australian Presenter Apologises for Drinking Before Slurred Winter Olympics Report
Danika Mason admitted drinking before a live Winter Olympics cross and cited cold, altitude, and skipping dinner as factors behind her slurred speech, apologizing on air.
- An Australian sports presenter apologized for slurring her words during a live Winter Olympics report, acknowledging she had a drink before going on air.
- She took "full responsibility" for her behavior, saying it did not meet her own standards.
- Australia's prime minister defended her, saying she was likely tired from the time difference.
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Olympic broadcaster Danika Mason apologizes for drunk appearance
Olympic broadcaster Danika Mason has issued an apology for being tipsy on air while covering the Winter Olympics in Italy. “Look, I totally misjudged a situation. I shouldn’t have had a drink especially in these conditions. It’s cold, we’ve got altitude, and not having had dinner probably didn’t help as well,” the Australian “Today” host explained Thursday. She confessed during the broadcast that her indiscretion is “not the standard I set for m…
Danika Mason was the protagonist of an unusual situation during her report from the Italian town of Livigno
A prestigious Australian journalist apologized this Thursday after participating in a broadcast of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics under the influence of alcohol, with comments among babbles, in an extract that went viral. Danika Mason (31 years old), from Channel Nine, acknowledged that she had "taken a drink" before her intervention on Wednesday from the Italian Alps. Her intervention, unconnected and diffuse, went from the price of coffee i…
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