what the hell Spain...

- Spain's Olympic basketball team posed for an advertisement prior to the Games which appears to show all its players slanting their eyes behind the image of a Chinese dragon, a move that could offend its Olympic hosts in Beijing. The ads appeared in the largest Spanish-language newspaper La Marca.

It's baffling that nobody involved in the picture from the photographers to the players even seemed to consider that this ad would be looked at negatively. Did it not occur to somebody that it might not be a good idea to mock an entire continent before the world's largest athletic competition that, by the way, happens to take place on that continent. Were they not aware of an invention called "the Internet" that allows pictures taken in Spain to be transmitted all over the world for the eyes of everyone? -

And now I'm reading that even with all this controversy, they still defend the photo...not even giving a simple apology saying it was done in poor taste.

I can't wait to watch your team lose. No bueno Spain...shame on you.

Sourced from Yahoo/MSN