“Since the 1990s, it has been the biggest success of our athletes. He does it so that the broadcasts he comments about – even played after years – all the time give emergence to chills and emotion. It is thanks to his work that the viewers who follow the disciplines supported by him choose the channels of Polish Television, not the competitive ones" – wrote about Przemysław Babiarz in an open letter addressed to the head of TVP a group of 3 100 outstanding athletes and sports journalists, mainly employees of the public TVP athletics channel.
"Therefore we ask – We, colleagues from work, but besides We viewers, fans and athletes, so that Przemysław Babiarz can study the Olympic Games in Paris. Przemysław Babiarz works primarily for fans. They are waiting for a sporting holiday, for Polish success, tears of joy and beautiful stories. They are waiting for a comment by Przemysław Babiarz" – we read in the appeal.
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— Jacek Kurowski (@JKurowski) July 30, 2024
“This is simply a time of unity through a athletics that is beautiful due to the fact that it connects and not divides. Everyone's got opinions. Przemysław Babiarz has 1 too. Not everyone has to agree. However, the view is good to have. It's besides good to have respect for someone's reasoning differently. This was the main motto of the beginning ceremony of the Olympics in Paris: Let us unite above divisions, respect that we are different. We ask you to return to the work of Przemysław Babiarz", the signatories stressed.
The request is addressed to Tomasz Sygut, manager of Polish tv S. A. in liquidation. The text, along with a list of athletes and journalists signed under appeal, went to social media. We'll find about 300 names there. Amongst others, those who are prominent – erstwhile and present representatives of Poland, including ex-players and players presently working with the public station as experts: Anita Włodarczyk, Natalia Kaczmarek, Justyna Świętok-Ersetic, Monika Pyrek, Joanna Jóźwik, Otilia Jędrzejczak, Joanna Sakowicz-Kostecka, Tomasz Majewski, Artur Partyka, Sebastian Chmara, Paweł Czapiewski, Marcin Urbaś, Marcin Żewłakow, Konrad Bukowicki, Marcin Lewandowski.
Fans will besides admit many, more or little well-known commentators and reporters, who support sports events all day: Jacek Laskowski, Jacek Kurowski, Paulina Chylewska, Sylwia Dekert, Piotr Sobczyński, Maciej Iwański, Maja Strzelczyk, Marcin Feddek and a number of others, mainly employees of TVP Sport.
Support for Przemysław Babiarz was besides shown in social media by athletes from outside the list (Marcin Możdźnik, Rafał Gikiewicz or Marek Prawgo), as well as colleagues from the journalistic industry, but not professionally engaged in sports, for example Bogdan Rymanowski.
Marek Szkolnikowski, erstwhile manager of TVP athletics and its creator in its current form, responded to the tweet: “I am simply arrogant of you squad @sport_tvppl ❤️”. In another entry, he emphasized: “The top success of TVP athletics was that we could not get active in tribal political wars but did our occupation honestly. People with specified different views worked in the editorial board, that it is not more ecumenical and that is the strength and beauty of sport.”
Kajakarka Claudia Zwolińska, a silver medalist of the ongoing games, dedicated in a conversation with Eurosport to the dismissed commentator the won trophy.
"TVP is more and more tv for nobody. By removing the president of Sygut from Przemysław Babiarz's vision, he will most powerfully punish his own station. Babiarz will cope with his popularity," noted political writer Piotr Semka.
On the another hand, the creator of the Zero Channel Krzysztof Stanowski unkindly mocked the attitude of the head of TVP athletics Jakub Kwiatkowski, who, in opposition to almost all of his editorials, owns his own political name to dismiss the leading commentator.
In 1 of his respective statements, Kwiatkowski stated that he "came to TVP athletics with a view to depoliticising it and focusing on it".
– TVP athletics was depoliticized before you came, you had no mission here. But how to tell you this – this is the station you politicized. due to the fact that in order to "make good" the superiors, you suspended the guy who is simply a legend of journalism and a legend of this station; and you suspended him due to the fact that something burned about communism. Well, it's hard to politicize the sports station more than by your own actions – Stanowski reposted in his style.
Let us remind you: during the beginning ceremony in Paris, Przemysław Babiarz commented on John Lennon's song at the time. adminine. And he said, A planet without heaven, nations and religion. This is simply a imagination of peace that's expected to take over everyone. This is simply a imagination of communism, unfortunately.
For these words he was suspended and removed from commenting on the games by the current head of TVP Sport.
Sources: Twitter (X), Press.pl, Eurosport.pl, Channel Zero, PCh24.pl
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