Why would the Associate Press feel the world needs this “news” when Savannah Guthrie’s mother is still missing?
The Associated Press is troubled that there are so many white athletes at the Winter Olympics. No, it really offered a new story that says this. No I am NOT kidding. The apparently woke-mad Chris Nisi complains in “Europe’s rising diversity is not reflected at the Winter Olympics. Culture plays a big role” [Note: “Culture plays a big role”= “Bulletin: Water is Wet.”]…
Immigration from Africa and the Middle East has transformed the demographics of Europe in recent decades. And while the growing diversity is reflected in many sports such as soccer — Sweden’s men’s national team has several Black players including Liverpool striker Alexander Isak — it hasn’t made a dent in winter sports…At the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Sweden is sending a team made up almost exclusively of ethnically Swedish athletes, with NHL player Mika Zibanejad, whose father is from Iran, a rare exception. That hardly reflects the diversity of the Nordic country: About 2 million of its 10 million residents were born abroad, about half of them in Asia or Africa, according to national statistics agency SCB.
The lack of athletes of color at the Winter Olympics — and in winter sports in general — has been a recurring theme in the U.S., which is sending one of its most diverse teams to the Games. It hasn’t gotten the same attention in Europe.
Ethics Alarms 
Why should it matter if an Olympic roster is “overwhelmingly white “?
It shouldn’t and doesn’t, unless the critic is a racist.
There should be more black athletes in the Olympic ski jump that way they wouldn’t have to inject their penises with hyaluronic acid.
As far as the Olympics are concerned my attitude is WGAF.
Hey, “Cool Runnings” was a good movie!
Actually, they may be saying: “Hey! African athletes dominate in most every sport they compete in. Why aren’t they dominant in winter sports? Why aren’t countries recruiting and training African athletes in Nordic sports? After all, Africans are physically superior. Don’t these countries want to win medals at the Olympics? Clearly, these countries must be discriminating against African kids by training inferior white kids rather than intrinsically more athletically superior African kids.”
I assumed that they article would justify their position by stating that the Olympics were actually invented by Sub-Saharan Africans and Europeans stole the idea through colonialism. This would go nicely with the latest assertions by the British press that Shakespeare was a black, Jewish woman. The current standard narrative in Europe seems to be that all Europeans were people of color(TM) until recently, when ‘white people’ just showed up from nowhere and stole everything from everybody through colonialism and racism.
When Trump does Trump things, I think about the alternative, and I remember that Trump is crude and insensitive and petty, but he doesn’t think like a Soviet comrade who is so infused with envy that any inequality on anything sends him into a conniption.