Another Olympian booted for racist tweet
The tweet that got Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella expelled from the games is terrible. He’s apologized, but it’s too late. He gone!
Hours after the Swiss soccer team lost to South Korea, Swiss defender Michel Morganella tweeted: “I want to beat up all South Koreans! Bunch of mentally handicapped retards!” (He wrote the tweet in a “garbled form of French,” according to the Associated Press.)
Morganella’s Twitter account has been removed since the tweet was sent.
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