Sunisa Lee, Olympic champion of the complete artistic gymnastics contest at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, has revealed that a few weeks ago she suffered a racist attack in Los Angeles.
In an interview with Pop Sugar, Lee told how she and several friends of Asian origin were sprayed with pepper gas while walking down a Los Angeles street.Lee was there because he currently participates in the television contest 'Dancing with the stars'.
Lee said that when they left a party they called an uber to pick them up.While waiting, a car stopped by their side and their occupants began to release racist insults."They told us to go to our country," says Lee.In addition, they sprayed Lee's arm with pepper gas before moving away at full speed.
"I was very angry, but I couldn't do anything because they left.It was a very difficult time, because I didn't want to do anything to put me in trouble, "lamented the gymnast.His mother, Yeev Thoj arrived as a child to the United States, from Laos.With Hmong roots, a nomadic town of the South Asian, Thoj was a single mother.He met John Lee when Sunisa was two years old and since then the two raised the Olympic champion together.
In April, the American Olympic Karateca Sakura Kokumai, who is American of Japanese origin, also revealed that she was approached while training in a California park.The man, who allegedly shouted racist insults, was arrested for threatening her.
