The issue is not the nationality; it's the BP, the one responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil leak in Gulf of Mexico - the largest environmental single damage in the century next to the Fukushima nuclear plant failure.I think it's only unusual because the B stands for British. But other than that, it's not so unusual. Many athletes are sponsored by multinational corporations. Tuktamysheva is sponsered by Samsung, which is a Korean company. Yuna was once sponsored by Nike, an American company. Mao is sponsored by Nestlé, a Swiss company and was once sponsored by Coca-Cola, an American company.
I'm glad she's got some sponsorship, but kinda sad to be glad over this one, too.