"Tonight I stuffed up," he wrote on Friday night.<\/p>\n
He said he had spoken to Himeno and apologised to him and the Highlanders for his conduct.<\/p>\n
"I absolutely accept this is not the standard expected of the sideline team.<\/p>\n
"I've got some work to do obviously, but I'm absolutely committed to doing better," he said.<\/p>\n
In a statement to Stuff<\/em>, Sky reiterated Wheeler's apology.<\/p>\n "Joe Wheeler has spoken with Kazuki and apologised to him and to team management," the statement said.<\/p>\n "He absolutely accepts this is not the standard expected of the broadcast team.<\/p>\n "Sky is committed to being culturally respectful and we expect all crew to do the right thing."<\/p>\n Also, Himeno replied to Wheeler's tweet, saying he accepted his apology.<\/p>\n "It's ok joe. Let's enjoy and celebrate our big victory. Let's go landers!!"<\/p>\n Wheeler's apology came after his remarks attracted swift condemnation on social media.<\/p>\n "Poor taste at the best of times but considering how badly the Asian community are being targeted right now it's especially disgusting," wrote Twitter user Trina Garnett.<\/p>\n "Sky Sport shouldn't even pay for his flight home, he should have to walk, that's disgraceful," said Twitter user Jaime Pitt-MacKay.<\/p>\n "That's a straight red, no TMO required," another commenter added.<\/p>\n Wheeler, 33, hung up his boots in 2020 following a 12-year professional rugby career.<\/p>\n The former lock played for his hometown team Tasman, the Crusaders, Highlanders, M\u0101ori All Blacks and Japanese club Suntory Sungoliath.<\/p>\n He won a Super Rugby title with the Highlanders in 2015 and last played for them in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sky Sport presenter Joe Wheeler has apologised for putting on an offensive impersonation of an Asian accent when discussing a Highlanders player on air. Wheeler's […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53352,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53350\/revisions\/53352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n