Posted on 02/09/2014 3:17:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
A British snowboarder in Sochi has had his post-event interview cut short by the BBC after it was feared he had sworn during a live broadcast.
Billy Morgan, a favourite for Great Britain at the Winter Olympics, was all smiles and suspicious laughter when he spoke to the public broadcaster after finishing 10th in the men's slopestyle final.
"I knew that maybe if I landed my run it'd put me up there on the podium, so I just thought, I'll just huck it," said grinning 24-year-old Morgan, to giggles by his teammate Jamie Nicholls.
"Yeah, it was fun."
"Huck it" is a snowboarding term meaning to attempt a bold, flashy performance, The Telegraph reports. But no one had told the BBC that.
Presenter Hazel Irvine immediately issued an on-air apology for Morgan's language.
The record has been set straight by the British press and Morgan is reportedly "very relaxed about the mix-up". "Thanks @BBCSport for having us on," he tweeted to his almost 10,000 followers this morning.
"First live experience went down a treat. Bit scary!"
So is there any difference between the ‘official definition’ of what he said and what the BBC thought he said? Don’t both essentially mean to ‘abandon any restraints’?
Huck it? Take a trip down the Mississippi River.
Mike Huckabee should use it as a slogan.
” Huck It “ meant to throw something where I grew up. Massachusetts term I thought,anyone else remember that phrase as a kid?
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“... anyone else remember that phrase as a kid?”
Huck no. (giggle, snort, giggle)
Huck Fairy Reid!
Huck it, we’ll do it live!
I had a boss once scald me for referring to someones disk drive as a scsi (pronounced skuzzy) disk drive.
You mean he dumped boiling water on you?...Cruel.
Snowboarders are like homeless bums on the mountain. Either zooming along at speeds that menace everyone else,, or laying there on their backs, sitting right in the middle of the trail.
Yup.. and I curse them 100s of times every time I am weaving around them on the way down... or being knocked off of my feet from one of them shooting across the slope (out of the trees on 1 side to the trees on the other side :/
In South Carolina when I was a boy to throw something was to “CHUCK IT”.
Nope, can't say that anymore, "Chuck" is short for "Spearchuck", and that would be racist.
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