Sportsbet suspended betting on the race after screenshots of the comment began circulating on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are extremely disappointed highly offensive and inappropriate comments supplied by a third party were automatically published on our platforms,\u201d a Sportsbet spokesperson said on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
We do not tolerate hate speech, discrimination, and racism in our organization, on our platforms, or by our partners. We will continue to call it out and unreservedly apologize for the distress this has caused,\u201d<\/strong> the spokesperson added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nGreyhound Racing NSW said Tuesday it was \u201cappalled\u201d by the comment and apologized \u201cunreservedly for \u2026 the distress it has caused.\u201d<\/p>\n
A source inside the organization told The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> that the staffer responsible had been fired.<\/p>\nLas Vegas Showcase<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe NRL event in Las Vegas was the first time that high-profile rugby league games had been showcased to a live U.S. audience, and the spectacle was marred somewhat by the racism controversy.<\/p>\n
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Lenui, who is of Samoan extraction, told the NRL panel Monday that \u201cat the time I thought it was one brown man saying something to another brown man.\u201d Leniu claimed he did not fully understand the racial connotations of the term or even that Mam was Indigenous Australian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But Lachlan Gyles, counsel for the NRL, wasn\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is beyond argument that in Australia in 2024, calling an Indigenous person a monkey does constitute racial abuse, and racial abuse of a very serious nature,\u201d Gyles said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian-facing online betting company Sportsbet was forced to pull the betting market on the final race at Maitland Greyhound Track on Monday. That’s after a \u201cracist\u201d message appeared in its live feed. The controversy surrounded a racing dog named for the Indigenous Australian rugby player Ezra Mam. On the same day as the race, another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":313990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28036],"tags":[90196,90197,81713,90199,90198],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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