Spain’s Olympic basketball team thought it would be a good idea to pose for a team photo making “slant-eyes”.. While in China.. Not that it would be cool if they did it somewhere else, I’m just pointing out the extra stupidity behind the picture. Strange behavior from such a racially progressive country like Spain.

Spanish sport has been mired in rows over racism in the last few years. In November 2004 black English footballers were subjected to relentless racial barracking from home supporters in a match in Spain. Before the World Cup there were calls for Luis Aragones, then Spain’s football coach, to be sacked after he called Thierry Henry a “black shit”. And last year Lewis Hamilton suffered racist abuse during testing for the Spanish grand prix near Barcelona.

I wonder how much Pau Gasol’s new Los Angeles Laker teammate Sun Yue appreciates this photo.

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