The Mexican IOC has since clarified that Larralde is not part of the Mexico boxing team. Mexican International Olympic Committee distances itself from amateur boxer
The amateur boxer claimed on his Instagram page to be representing Mexico at the 2020 Olympics. He called for the government to take action against Larralde. Among those to criticize it was Mexican actor Luis Gerardo Méndez. However, he almost immediately started to receive backlash about it.
The original two-minute video was posted by Larralde last week. No puedo creer que siga habiendo gente tan ignorante. Quiero compartir este video con ustedes, me causo mucha tristeza e impotencia ya que absolutamente TODOS merecemos amor, respeto, e igualdad. Mi intención no es ofender a nadie, perdón si alguien siente lo contrario. He has subsequently deleted the video but other Twitter users captured it. I know that Hitler was a bad person, but in that I support him. A Mexican boxer, Dario Larralde, has issued several apologies after upsetting people with a homophobic rant that he posted to his social media.īack2Stonewall quotes him, translated from Spanish, as saying: ‘Fuck me fucking gays, I have a fucking phobia … everywhere I go there’s always a gay punk watching me … Everything your community does, everything you do, everything you represent, shits me, I will never accept it.
