Olympics: Spain Basketball Team being stupid…

Spain's Basketball Federation has published a good luck advert for their men's team, the world champions, in which they stand pulling at the sides of their eyes in a slit-eyed gesture.

There is no obvious intention to upset their Olympic hosts in Beijing, but the irresponsible picture is likely to cause controversy and could be interpreted so as to lead to accusations of racism.

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.

Spain play their first match in the Olympic basketball competition against Greece at 7.30am BST today. (The Guardian)

Is the typical Spaniard really that stupid beyond all rational thought? These douchebags better get boo'd while they take the court in China and as team USA beats the crap out of them. I'm a Laker's fan and even Pau Gasol is in the mix...which is very disappointing to me.

Pau Gasol is not only a douchebag....he's a typical stupid jock. You'd think living in America and Los Angeles he'd be better educated on the fact that white people aren't funny when they try to take a stab at racial humor, especially when it comes to Asians. But hey, at least he's doing it for his country...and they think it's funny.

And the slanted eye posture is offensive because it was always used to mock Asians by white people. Team Spain might as well be called Team Rosie O'Donnell.