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As the disappointment on the mountain continues, history was made in Torino yesterday in the premier event in speedskating. Shani Davis became the first African-American to win a gold medal in Winter Olympic history, and only the third black athlete to win a winter medal ever, as he skated to victory in the men's 1,000 meter race. The victory must have been especially sweet for Davis as he trained by himself in Canada, apart from the rest of the US Speedskating team. Davis and US Speedskating have had a bitter battle that included the organization pulling Davis' financing for training over the placement of a logo. Davis' mother pressed for her son to be removed from the organization's website. Joey Cheek, who earlier won the gold in the 500 meter race, finished 2nd and Chad Hedrick, the gold medal winner in the 5,000, finished 6th.
In hockey, the United States lost to Slovakia, 2-1 and hockey juggernaut Canada somehow lost to Switzerland. And in scary news for Ranger fans, Jaromir Jagr required stitches and had 3 cuts on his head when he was rammed into the boards in the Czech Republic's loss to FInland.
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Did you see the interview with Davis after he won? He didn't smile and the interviewer even asked him if he was angry. Weird.
The public and the media always naively expects black athletes to be either happy faced pollyanas or nasty SOBS. They don't allow for third ways of being or acting.
What does it have to do with his race? You would think anyone who won a gold would be thrilled and he wasn't.
This has nothing to do with race. People said the exact same thing when the very, very white Yevgney Plushenko won the gold and appeared surly.
It seemed clear to me that he was irritated in the interview because the interviewer instead of asking him about his performance was overly obsessed with the fact that he's black. The guy should be able to take pride in his personal achievment rather than being designated as a racial spokesman, a role as far as I can tell is one that he's not asked for. bob costas seemed clueless too.