This year’s installment of the Winter Olympic Games is the most diverse its ever been, with an increasing number of Black athletes competing for gold medals in sports that are not traditionally associated with people of color.
Not including the
10 American Olympians, there are a handful of other Black competitors from countries that don’t have a cold winter season, let alone see a single flake of snow, which makes their qualifications for the Games all the more impressive. By contrast, just 10 Black people competed in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
The
opening ceremony is Friday, with the Games being held through February 25 in Pyeongchang County, South Korea.
Black women,
who have been busy trying to save America from itself, make up the bulk of Team USA. Will they be able to win in South Korea, too?
Here’s a closer look at all of the Black people competing in PyeongChang 2018.
