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Argentina’s Olympic Women’s Soccer Team Gets on the Hate Bandwagon
11:32 am By Maegan La Mala · Argentina| Beijing Summer Olympics| China| Sports| race · 3 Comments
19 Aug 2008
When the Spanish sports teams did their offensive eye posing, it was easy to dismiss the racism as coming from Europeans with their own history of conquest. But now the women’s Olympic soccer team from Argentina has been caught doing the same exact “slant-eye” pose, we have to wonder just what the hell is going on that makes people think that this is ok?
Besides the gesture being obviously offensive, there is the dismissal that all three teams have made: that they didn’t mean to offend. Which begs the question, what exactly did they intend? To make us laugh with their antics? To get us excited about China? To reveal a deep desire to be Chinese that they all have? To show us how stupid they are?
In this case payback is a bitch, as they say because Argentina’s women lost 2-0 to China. In fact, they lost all three of their matches.
Via / Who Ate All the Pie
Spanish Olympic Tennis Team “Winks” in China Too
10:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Beijing Summer Olympics| China| Controversia| Spain| Sports| race · 1 Comment
15 Aug 2008
Seriously, Spanish Olympic sports teams, cut it the f out! Now the Spanish Olympic Women’s Tennis team poses making “slant eyes” for a camera. Well actually it’s not a new pic, but one that is a few months old.
The latest photo to emerge shows Spanish women tennis players pulling the pose, apparently in anticipation of their Federation Cup match against China in April…
It was apparently taken after the team defeated Italy in the quarter-finals of the competition – the premier team contest for women tennis players – in February. Wine glasses are visible on the table in front of the party…
The photo is still visible on the official website of the Spanish Tennis Federation, where it was spotted.
The original is captioned “Estamos preparados para China”, which translates as “We are prepared for China”.
Via / The Latin Americanist
Olympics in China Have Officially Begun (Yawn)
6:49 pm By Maegan La Mala · China| Controversia| Sports · Comments Off
8 Aug 2008
Excuse me for not getting all excited about the Olympics. I’m just not a sports person (except for South American futbol) and the whole scene of President Bush going to China to support U.S. athletes and speaking about human rights is just a little surreal, to put it mildly.
That said, the 2008 Summer Olympics have begun in China with an over four hour opening ceremony.
The BBC seems to have some of the better coverage but good luck trying to see the events online.
Image Via / BBC
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