Gold medallist Sunisa Lee says the suspects also shouted slurs at her during the incident in Los Angeles.
US Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee has said she was pepper-sprayed in a racist drive-by attack in Los Angeles., the gold winner and first US-Hmong Olympian said she and a group of Asian friends were targeted while waiting for a ride.
The incident took place a few weeks ago as she was in LA to film Dancing with the Stars, she told the magazine. Attacks on people of Asian descent have risen amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which was first reported in China. Lee, 18, made history by travelling to Tokyo this summer, becoming the first US Olympic athlete from the Hmong ethnic group.
The gymnast said she and her friends, all of Asian descent, were waiting for their Uber after a night out when a car passed with people inside shouting ethnic slurs and telling them to "go back to where they came from".One person sprayed her in the arm with pepper spray before the vehicle sped away, she said."I didn't do anything to them, and having the reputation, it's so hard because I didn't want to do anything that could get me into trouble.
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