Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures.... The advert features two large photographs, one of the men's basketball team... on a basketball court decorated with a picture of a Chinese dragon. Every single player appears pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes.

According to the IOC's official website, "The goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." And what better way for the Spanish hoops team to express a spirit of friendship practiced without discrimination than to make slanty eyes like a bunch of drunken college douches at 2AM giving a hard time to the waiter at the Imperial Garden?

I have to confess that except for the times when Pau Gasol is open for a jumper against the Celtics, I pay zero attention to Spanish basketball. So my question is, do they do stuff like this for every Olympics? When the Games were in Moscow, did they pose for a team picture like they were drinking vodka or eating their dead relatives at the Battle of Leningrad? In Sydney did they strike a pose guzzling Foster's or holding babies over crocodiles? I mean, does this Spanish Basketball brand of racism unique to just the Chinese, or does it extend to all cultures? Because I'd shudder to think how they posed for the Games when they were in Greece.