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Meet All The Black People Competing In The 2018 Winter Olympics | NewsOne

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Meet All The Black People Competing In The 2018 Winter Olympics | NewsOne



[dropcap]This[/dropcap] 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. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

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.