Agree with you regarding the title of the thread. But the title of the thread is just the title of the article linked by us in the OP. And the title of the piece, of necessity, uses literary shortcuts to title the brief interview article. Did you look at the article?

(I mean, imagine an article titled, "ln the sport of professional cycling in Europe, among both the professional riders and the administrative staff in high level professional cycle racing governing bodies, are perhaps lacking athletes and staffers of African descent, or at least relative to the percentage of individuals of African descent residing in European countries").

That just doesn't have the zing of "Is cycling the whitest sport on earth"

In the end, this thread was never started to get into semantic arguments, more just to share one (highly unrepresented) rider's opinion about riding and about life, and to ask, can cycling do better?

To which, l think the answer is, 'certainly'.