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whoa, a black guy in the winter olympics. why is it that there are so few?

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JeffreyLebowski said:
I have a similar question, those not so much about race, but national origin.
Why is it that people that came to America and are playing professional sports in America/Canada and have been here so long that they have become citizens, go play for their home country in the Olympics?
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usually second stringers. Not good enough to be top dog in USA/Canada, but good enough to be top in another country they happen to have citizenship in.
 
newb111 said:
I take back my concern about doing the math wrong. Of course the math is correct. You are of course also free to draw whatever conclusions you like from the data, I was simply showing that ElFenix's statement about "3x as many black people in new york as in mississippi." was 100% true.
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Facepalm on my part...I was only looking at the percentages and not the total number
 
JeffreyLebowski said:
I have a similar question, those not so much about race, but national origin.
Why is it that people that came to America and are playing professional sports in America/Canada and have been here so long that they have become citizens, go play for their home country in the Olympics?
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sdifox said:
usually second stringers. Not good enough to be top dog in USA/Canada, but good enough to be top in another country they happen to have citizenship in.
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sdifox, I believe you answered his question backwards.

Simple, money and access. There is more money and access to more things to be had in the US in sports if you can compete. Right or wrong, athletes still keep their ties to their homeland and represent them in the Olympics due to citizenship, etc. Many just carry a green card without obtaining US citizenship. Some, however, do represent the US even when they aren't native born.

That being said, I don't always agree that athletes should be able to do so.
 
BlahBlahYouToo said:
there was a black guy in speed skating. why aren't there more?
track and field is dominated by blacks. the mechanics are pretty similar. why doesn't it carry over to the ice?

also for swimming. why aren't there more blacks in swimming?
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dullard said:
You are doing the math wrong. Why? Because only the percentage matters in situations like this. 17.3% of people in NY are black, 37.2% in Mississippi are black. That is all that is needed for this thread. The total number is misleading.

A random youth getting started in sports in Mississippi is 37.2% likely to be black and is highly likely to be doing warm weather sports. A random youth getting started in sports in NY is 17.3% likely to be black and is far more likely to be doing winter sports.
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i don't think that's quite it either. there's still ~3x as many black kids in sports in new york than in mississippi. the big factor here is that the black kids in new york are probably (75% or so?) in NYC, with limited opportunity to do winter sports on a regular basis as opposed to (in particular) basketball (which goes back to basketball requiring a ball and a city-provided piece of tarmac to play on, but skiing requiring lift fees and equipment rentals each day)
 
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