The story of Major Taylor is an interesting one. He was a black American cyclist in the late 1800s who became world champion in track-sprinting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Taylor

I'd never heard of him before until someone spoke about him at an academic seminar last year.

The story of Major Taylor is an interesting one. He was a black American cyclist in the late 1800s who became world champion in track-sprinting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Taylor

I'd never heard of him before until someone spoke about him at an academic seminar last year.

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.

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...

Yes, exactly.

It must be interesting to some kids, as there are pro cyclists.

ok maybe it's not interesting to enough kids of color, but I'm not about to blame racism for all that. I dont know why you do other then not really being honest.

nah what's interesting is I dont think you are getting as much traction in the Tri portion of the forum as you might have hoped for. Maybe stick it in the LR where it might be more friendly to your incorrect view of cycling as a sport.

So its not all the fault of white guys holding us back.

Water-polo

nah what's interesting is I dont think you are getting as much traction in the Tri portion of the forum as you might have hoped for. Maybe stick it in the LR where it might be more friendly to your incorrect view of cycling as a sport.

People who think that cycling is the "whitest sport" have never been to South Korea or Colombia.

lt's the same kind of people that think racism only exist in the USA. It's not worth listening to those ppl.

Well said. There is racism in the usa, but there is also lots of racism in Europe. Unfortunately, there is probably no country that is free of it.

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There is no country free of it and anyone who says white people can't be the victims of racism have their heads firmly buried in only one narrative.You are fixated on that one narrative here.

Being born with white privilege is a heavy cross to bare...