Please guys, you’re just embarrassing yourselves

A few days ago, Spain’s Basketball team highlighted their nation’s ‘poor record for racial sensitivity’ by posing with slit-eye gestures for an advert in a Spanish newspaper. Yesterday, Jose Calderon told us the photo was ‘appropriate’ and the rest of the world is ‘absolutely confused’, and now The Telegraph have discovered the photo above on the Spanish Tennis Federation’s website.

The snap, running with the caption “we are prepared for China” on the Spanish website, includes female tennis players Llagostera Vives, Medina Garrigue and Suarez-Navarro - all of whom are competing in Beijing. It was taken ahead of a Federation Cup match against China in April.

Have you seen any other pictures like this? Are you an insensitive Spaniard not scared of being exposed online? Send us your snaps here, folks.

Offensive photo was “appropriate”, says Olympian

You folks out there in interwebland have been going batshit crazy for the story about Spain’s ‘Chinese wink’ team photo (300+ comments so far), and it seems most of you have been waiting for an apology from the Spaniards for a few days. Instead, however, they have been protesting their innocence - Spanish NBA star Jose Calderon wrote on his website:

Clearly, most of us are ‘absolutely confused’. The whole ‘some of my best friends are Asian’ excuse is a popular choice