No, we asked for tense races . . . NOT racial tension!

Yeah . . . you might not want to drink that Coke. . .

Aah, the spirit of the summer games . . . Now, anyone who knows me knows I'm not the most politically correct person, but even I know that if you're going to be racially insensitive, you have to make sure the group you're insulting isn't going to find out about it.  Full page ad in a sports daily in your home country?  Sorta lacks the subtlety you might have been aiming for.  And the real bitch of the whole thing is that 30 minutes after this photo was taken, they wanted to be racially insensitive again.

Strangely enough, the Olympic scandal involving the Spanish basketball team is being overshadowed by the scandal involving the little girl who allegedly soloed on the performance of Hymn to the Motherland during the opening ceremonies.  While we were all led to believe that Lin Miaoke was singing as she soared through the air behind her giant kite, she was actually lip synching to vocals pre-recorded by Yang Peiyi, who Chinese officials thought wasn't as aesthetically pleasing.

Now let me get this straight, the nation hosting the Olympics . . . y'know, the communist nation with an atrocious human rights record; the one that supports rogue regimes like Burma, Sudan, North Korea and Iran? The place with less than stellar freedom of the press, . . . they were less than honest with the world in their representation of the great People's Republic?!?!  Well, color me surprised.

But all is not lost . . .

They go together like Lin & Yang