2024年2月27日 · Snowsports Industries America found in a 2022-2023 study that winter sports participation is slowly getting more diverse. Black participants grew from 9.5% of all participants in 2022 to 11.2% in 2023. Hispanic participation also grew from 14.9% to 15.2%.

2022年2月17日 · So where are the Black and Hispanic American athletes at the Winter Olympics? The U.S. Alpine skiing team in Beijing is entirely white. The U.S. snowboarders and freestyle skiers include Asian American riders, but none who are Black or Hispanic.

2023年1月17日 · Henri Rivers is president of the National Brotherhood of Skiers, which supports development of Black Olympic athletes and encourages participation in winter sports. Rivers said most mountain communities are small, wealthy, predominantly white and far from the urban centers where many Black people work and live.

2015年5月28日 · According to a SnowSports Industries America study, in 2013, black people made up just 7.3% of alpine skiers, while 72% were caucasian. In terms of snowboarding during that same year, African Americans were a bigger piece of the pie at 10.2%, but white people still made up the lion's share.

2022年2月21日 · A survey by Aspen’s Reimagining School Sports initiative found that out of roughly 6,000 U.S. high school students, only 1 percent of Black students say they’ve skied, snowboarded, or played ...

2024年12月3日 · Some NBS athletes are even on track to compete in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games and others are reaching X Game status. In many ways, young Black skiers are having a totally different experience than when Rivers started out as a preteen.

2022年2月20日 · BEIJING — Richardson Viano is a first and an anomaly. As a Black skier who competed in the Beijing Olympics, the 19-year-old became the first athlete to represent his birth country, Haiti, at...

2022年2月16日 · So where are the Black and Hispanic American athletes at the Winter Olympics? The U.S. Alpine skiing team in Beijing is entirely white. The U.S. snowboarders and freestyle skiers include Asian...

2022年2月4日 · The first Black athlete of any nationality to win a gold medal in the Winter Games was Vonetta Flowers, an American bobsledder, in 2002 in Salt Lake City. Speedskater Shani Davis was the first Black American to win a gold medal in an individual sport, the 1,000-meter race in 2006 in Turin.

2024年12月9日 · Despite the numbers, organizations locally, nationally, and internationally are encouraging Black representation in the winter sports world. For example, events hosted by these organizations, including the Black Ski Summit and Black Ski Weekend, are held at ski resorts in the U.S. and abroad.