Spanish under fire for Olympic ad

BEIJING - An ad featuring the Spanish Olympic basketball team making slit-eyed gestures is being slammed for being culturally insensitive to the team's hosts, upsetting their Chinese sponsor and even putting a dent in Madrid's 2016 Summer Games bid.

by Dominic Fitzsimmons

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