American gymnast Sunisa Lee, who won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, revealed that recently, strangers sprayed her with pepper spray. Lee described the attack in Los Angeles as “anti-Asian and racist” in an interview with “PopSugar”.
In this interview published on Wednesday (10/11), Lee explained that she and her friends were waiting for an Uber when a car passed by them. The occupants hurled insults of racist content and sprayed her with pepper spray in her hand.
“I was so angry, but there was nothing I could do, because they left quickly,” said the 18-year-old South Asian champion, adding: “I did nothing for them. It’s so hard, because I did not want to do something that could get me in trouble. I just let it happen. “
Lee is not the first athlete to fall victim to anti-Asian racism, as last April, Japanese-American Sakura Kokumai, who competed in the Olympic karate tournament, said she had been targeted while training in a California park by a man who fired while snowboarding Olympian Chloe Kim revealed in April that she was receiving racist insults on social media on a daily basis.
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