Racists reign in Spain

FINAL Word was horrified to stumble across this pre-Olympics picture the other day.

It depicts the Spanish basketball team ignorantly poking fun at their Chinese hosts ahead of their trip to Beijing.

The days when making slanty-eye gestures were acceptable are, thankfully, long since gone.

So why did Spain's men's and women's basketball teams, dressed in team kit on official photos, feel it was fair game to be pictured pulling back the skin on their eyes to narrow them?

The photographs appeared in a newspaper advertisement for a courier company in popular Spanish daily, Marca.

This is just the latest racist gaffe by the Spanish sporting fraternity.

Former national football coach Luis Aragones made derogatory comments about Thierry Henry and Formula One fans blacked up to abuse Lewis Hamilton at the Spanish Grand Prix.

In a day and age when sport is being used as a positive platform to stamp out prejudices, what do you think of the latest act of ignorance from Spain?

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