(CNN)The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) has apologized to Austrian climber Johanna Farber aft inappropriate images of her were broadcast during the World Championships successful Moscow.
Multiple media outlets reported that the event's broadcaster aired a close-up replay of Farber's bottommost during the boulder semifinals past week, prompting the sport's governing assemblage to station an apology.
"The IFSC condemns the objectification of the quality assemblage and volition instrumentality further enactment successful bid for it to stop, and to support the athletes," work a statement.
It's astir a repetition of an incidental that happened during the World Cup successful June, wherever IFSC's big broadcaster ORF issued an apology to Farber aft airing inappropriate images of the climber.
At the time, Farber released a statement connected societal media saying she had been near embarrassed and called connected radical to "stop sexualising women successful sports and commencement to admit their performance."
Farber was not instantly disposable for remark aft the latest incidental successful Russia but IFSC President Marco Scolaris said the assemblage indispensable halt making the aforesaid mistakes.
"How galore times volition things person to beryllium done incorrect earlier we larn however to bash them right?" helium said successful a statement.
Sport climbing made its Olympic debut successful Tokyo this twelvemonth and was a monolithic deed during the Games.
The World Championships are presently being unrecorded streamed connected YouTube with tens of thousands of viewers tuning in.
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