New argy bargy over 'slitty eye' gestures

A third Olympic team have been photographed making "slit-eyed" gestures, it was revealed today.

Argentina's women's football team, which lost all its matches in Beijing, were pictured pulling the skin away from their eyes to impersonate Chinese facial features.

The picture follows two similar images of the Spanish Olympic basketball men's and women's teams which were widely criticised.

The latest photo, which emerged today, shows Argentine players Maria Potassa, Eva Gonzalez, Fabiana Vallejos and Andrea Ojeda and was printed in the Argentine sports newspaper Ole earlier this month to preview the team's first Olympic game.

In the Olympic village today, one Chinese official said: "Even though they don't mean to offend the Chinese people, it does not make us very happy."