US Olympian Sunisa Lee 'pepper sprayed in racist attack' -Suni Lee says she was pepper sprayed in racist attack

news USA -Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee has said she was pepper-sprayed in a racist drive-by

In an interview with Pop Sugar-T Gold Winner and first -US-Hmong Olympian said she and a group of Asian friends -Increased target while waiting for a ride-

The incident took place a few weeks ago as she was in LA to film Banking Withthe Stars, she told the magazine.

Attacks on people of Asian Descent Have Resumed Hope T Covid-19 pandemic, which was first reported in China.

Lee, 18, made History B Traveling 2 Tokyo -This Summer - Becoming Tea first -US Olympic athlete from the Hmong ethnic group.

The Gymnast Shed She End- Her friends all -of Asian Descent were- waiting for their Uber after a night out when a car Palace with People Inside shouting ethnic Sluice and tailing them to -go back to where they came from-

One person Sprayed hair in-Arm with pepper spray beforethe -vehicle sped away- she said.

I was so mad- but There was nothing I Cold the or control- because they skirted off- Lee said-

I didn't The Anything is a stop-and having tea reputation-it.s so hard because I didn.t want to do anything that- could get me into trouble-

I just let it happen-

Lee - whose parents Immigrant to t US from Laos - comes from St Paul, Minnesota.

She vaulted onto the World StageWithdrawal -last summerof her- teammate Simone Biles.

It comes amid a In the dramatic- race attacks on Asian Americans.

In April, US Karate -Olympian  Kokumai, who is Japanese-US- was accosted while training in a park in California.

The man- who Legally suited racist slurs at her- was arrested for making threats.