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The Brazilian presenter seemed to be joking, but as Almeida responded in their shared Portuguese, the athlete put her head down and walked off. On Tuesday in China, which happened to be a traditional Valentine’s-type holiday, sports commentator Han Qiaosheng, long known for his awkward remarks, said he wished that popular swimmer Fu Yanhui could “find her other half in the future.” A commentator for Canada’s CBC, Byron MacDonald, said that 14-year-old Chinese swimmer Ai Yanhan “went out like stink and died like a pig” in the 200-meter women’s freestyle heat. CBC apologized, issuing a statement on Twitter saying it was “an unfortunate choice of words. We are sorry it happened.” Women first took part in the Olympics in Paris in 1900. Back then, there were just 22 women among 997 athletes and they competed in just five sports: tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrian and golf. 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The drumbeat of awkward and insulting commentary this week prompted journalist Lindy West to pen a column for the Guardian, titled, “How to talk about female Olympians without being a regressive creep — a handy guide.” Don’t, she advised, “spend more time discussing female athletes’ makeup, hairdos, very small shorts, hijabs, bitchy resting faces, voice pitch, thigh circumference, marital status and age than you spend analyzing the incredible feats of strength and skill they have honed over a lifetime of superhuman discipline and restraint.” And don’t, she added, refer to women in terms of men they know, are related to, work with or have sex with. “Women are fullyformed, autonomous people who do things,” she said. “We are not pets or gadgets or sex-baubles.” Do, she advised, write about female athletes “the way you write about male athletes — i.e. without mentioning their gender except maybe in the name of the sport.” “Can you imagine if we brought up gender every time we wrote about men?” she asked. “’Perky male point guard Isaiah Thomas, stepping out in a flattering terrycloth headwrap, proves that men really can play ball and look cool-summery-sexy doing it!’ See how unbearable that sounds?” A study by Cambridge University Press, released as the Olympics opened, confirmed large discrepancies in how the media and fans alike talk about men and women in sport. The research, which analyzed multibillion-word databases of written and spoken English language, found that in general, men are referenced twice as often as women, but when the topic is sports, the ratio is about 3 to 1. “Language around women in sport focuses disproportionately on the appearance, clothes and personal lives of women, highlighting a greater emphasis on aesthetics over athletics,” the researchers found. “Notable terms that cropped up as common word associations or combinations for women, but not men, in sport include ‘aged,’ ‘older,’ ‘pregnant’ and ‘married’ or ‘un-married,’” the study found, while the top word combinations for male athletes were adjectives such as “fastest,” “strong,” “big,” “real” and “great.” The authors of the study pointed out that women faced “higher levels of infantilizing or traditionalist language,” and are twice as likely to be referred to as “ladies” than men are to be called “gentlemen.” “It’s perhaps unsurprising to see that women get far less airtime than men and that their physical appearance and personal lives are frequently mentioned,” Sarah Grieves, a language researcher at Cambridge University Press said in a statement last week. “It will be interesting to see if this trend is also reflected in our upcoming research on language used at the Rio Olympics.” Stay tuned for those results. Vincent Bevins in Rio, Nicole Liu and Yingzhi Yang in The Times’ Beijing bureau, and special correspondents Steven Borowiec in Seoul and Erik Kirschbaum in Berlin contributed to this report.