Spain’s Basketball Team Controversial Photo
There’s this ad in the Spanish-language newspaper La Marca prior to the Games that recently surfaced where Spain’s Olympic basketball team appears to be slanting their eyes. Check it out.
What’s weird is that nobody from the team or the newspaper considered that the ad would be a bit offensive to the Olympic’s host country. Even though it was all in good fun, lots of people particularly the Chinese would be upset. Having the power of the Internet didn’t help bury the issue either.
Anyway, the Spanish team got a lot of boos during their game against China yesterday. It wasn’t enough to force an upset though as one of the strongest team in the Olympics won against China in overtime, 85-75.
Just for fun or clearly a racist ad?
More reading: Spain’s ‘Slant-Eye’ Team Photo Stirs Ire
(Thanks dyanie for this piece of news)
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hi calvin! this is the pic im referring to w/ my last comment hehe
lagot sila sa dun sa china! hahahah
calvin: hehe… no offense naman daw talaga eh. pinalalaki lang daw ng media at ng blog ko yung issue sabi ni Pau Gasol.