The gymnast was waiting for an
Uber in
Los Angeles with
Friends when a car sped by and passengers yelled anti-Asian slurs
US Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee has revealed that she was pepper-sprayed in a racist drive-by attack weeks after she won gold in the Tokyo games.
Lee, 18, was waiting for an Uber in Los Angeles after a night out with a group of friends, who are all of Asian descent. A car sped by and its passengers began yelling anti-Asian slurs and told Lee and her friends to “go back to where they came from”. One passenger sprayed Lee’s arm with pepper spray as the car sped off, said Lee, who became the first Hmong
American Olympian and the first Asian American woman to win a gold medal in the all-around gymnastics competition this year.