US Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee said she was pepper-sprayed in a racist drive-by attack in Los Angeles.
The 18-year-old 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 was so mad, but there was nothing I could do or control because they skirted off,” Lee said in an interview with Pop Sugar.
The incident took place a few weeks ago as she was in LA to film Dancing with the Stars, she added.
Lee made history by travelling to Tokyo this summer, becoming the first US Olympic athlete from the Hmong ethnic group.
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