Ambassadors for their country

So no-one in the Spanish men's Olympic basketball team, their organising committee, their sponsors or the newspaper that published the image thought it might be quite offensive to print a picture of the entire team grinning whilst making the infamous schoolyard 'slitty-eyes' gesture?  And particularly offensive when the Olympics is being held in Beijing?  Eedjits.    

 

- 'Spain's eye-catching faux pas', Guardian, 11 August 2008