DarkSpeedWorks wrote:
I am getting confused. You want to engage but then you don't want to engage but then you want to engage? What's up here?
As you might guess, l am not nor never claimed to be an expert on world sport. The article that l linked in the OP (did you read the article? -- it is very short) mentioned a tremendous lack of black riders in European professional cycling teams. Your links are very interesting, but are you saying the statistics mentioned in OP article are wrong?
I think l mentioned this earlier, but it bears repeating. Europe has a population of nearly 750 million people. That is A LOT of people, well over double the population of the United States. Not sure exactly how many African Europeans live in Europe and how many are immigrants and how many are native born, but l imagine that both numbers are a lot more than zero.
Anyway, out of all this, according to the claims of the article (the one linked in the OP), there are just 10 black professional road riders in Europe. Why exactly this is the case we can discuss forever and never know the answer.
Just 10 black pro riders.
Call me crazy, but to me that seems low.
I'm sure you can find racists in every European country but if racism is what is preventing non-whites from participating and making it to the highest levels of cycling it must be particular to the sport given that soccer teams have tons of non-whites. I would think in many countries disproportionately so.