The San Jose Mercury News is catching heat for its offensive coverage of Simone Manuel’s historic gold medal.

The 20-year-old became the first African-American woman to win an individual swimming event at an Olympic Games Thursday when she took joint first place with Canada’s Penny Oleksiak in the 100-meter freestyle at Rio 2016.

Yet the California daily newspaper entirely omitted Manuel’s name from the headline of a story on its website focusing on her accomplishment. Instead, it wrote this:

“Michael Phelps shares historic night with African-American,” said the story’s headline and a subsequent tweet.

Twitter users immediately blasted the phrasing for not even mentioning Manuel’s name and solely describing her as “African-American.”

They also slammed the headline as sexist, as it focused on Phelps and his achievement of winning his 22nd gold medal. That was despite his accomplishments forming the secondary part of the article, being only detailed from the 14th paragraph onwards.

This is a terrible headline. It's my paper. I might get in trouble for saying it, but it's a terrible headline. https://t.co/ulQyf2eVnu — Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) August 12, 2016

Is this real life? So disappointing! Way to go @mercnews 😡 her name is @simone_manuel tf? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/oCfqyGOFHp — △⃒⃘ Eva La Morte△⃒⃘ (@EvaLaMorte) August 12, 2016

@mercnews unfortunate that the story portrays Manuel as someone who forced Phelps to "share the spotlight." — David Sampson (@djsampson) August 12, 2016

So yeah, @mercnews, let me, a journalist, fix that for you: "Manuel Wins Historic Swimming Gold."



Boom. There. You're welcome. — Txnewsprincess (@txnewsprincess) August 12, 2016

@mercnews Simone Manuel earned her own headline for her historic win- it has nothing to do with Phelps at all.

She deserves better. — LariatAngel (@LariatAngel) August 12, 2016

@mercnews Question: Why does Simone Manuel's historic win have to be presented in context with Michael Phelps'? Can a lady get her own here? — Txnewsprincess (@txnewsprincess) August 12, 2016

What kind of bullshit headline is this, @mercnews?! Her name is Simone Manuel. #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/tdJsnr2wdI — Kathryn Schotthoefer (@katschott) August 12, 2016

The San Jose Mercury News later apologized for the headline and amended it to read, “Stanford’s Simone Manuel and Michael Phelps make history.”

“The original headline on this story was insensitive and has been updated to acknowledge the historic gold medal wins by both Simone Manuel and Michael Phelps,” reads an editor’s note which has been since included.

“We apologize for the original headline. The story has also been updated.”

We apologize for an insensitive headline earlier on a story about Simone Manuel and Michael Phelps' medal wins. https://t.co/ykWvcddaKf — Mercury News (@mercnews) August 12, 2016

“We apologize for an insensitive headline earlier on a story about Simone Manuel and Michael Phelps’ medal wins,” it added in a tweet.

But Twitter users were still upset, saying the headline was still focusing on the wrong section of the story. They also questioned exactly why it had been published in the first place.

@mercnews Apologize? Why did you write it in the first place? NO ONE in that newsroom thought it was wrong? Straight BS. — Valencia (@VeeeKaaay) August 12, 2016

@mercnews @aurabogado you're still getting the lead story wrong 🙄😑👎 — Yoni Blumberg (@yblumberg) August 12, 2016

The incident follows a spate of sexist incidents in the media’s coverage of the Rio 2016 Games.

NBC sportscaster Dan Hicks sparked outrage when he appeared to credit Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu’s husband, Shane Tusup, for her world record-breaking win in the 400-meter individual medley ― while the Chicago Tribune was slammed for an article and tweet about Corey Cogdell-Unrein’s bronze medal for trap shooting that focused on the career of her NFL player husband, Mitch Unrein.

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