i need information about african americans in the wintrer olympics.?
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Vonetta Flowers was the First African American to have won the Gold Medal at the Olympic Winter Games. (in bobsleigh)
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mmmmm u should get sumthing from the greek olympic games.......thall be fun........look it them up on wkipedia or sumthing.......yah haha.
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http://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/players/
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Black tennis player who was very good. Go to this site and you'll find lots of info.
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http://www.athens2004.com/en/OlympicMedals/medals?lang=en&channel=OlympicMedals&discipline_code=BD\n\nScroll to the bottom of the page and all the winners of each event is posted. You can click on the athletes and it will have a bio each one.
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OK, it breaks down like this:\n\nIn 1904, George Poage became the first "black runner" to win an Olympic medal, a bronze in the 400 metres hurdles, but on the same day Joseph Stadler became the first "black athlete to win an Olympic medal", with a silver in the standing high jump behind the great Ray Ewry. \n\nMany sites still list Poage as being the first...
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Have you tried the official Alabama Athletics website?  www.rolltide.com.  If not in there I would email the Sports Information Director.
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Athletes\nAndrea Blackett \nJoel Garner \nGordon Greenidge \nSir Conrad Hunte \nSir Garfield Sobers \nObadele Thompson \nSir Clyde Walcott \nSir Everton Weekes \nKevin Weekes \nSir Frank Worrell \n\nMariners\nWilliam Shorey \n\nMusicians\nAnderson Armstrong \nJackie Opel \nRupert Clarke (Rupee) \nMac Fingall \nMighty Gabby \nAlison Hinds \nRed Plastic Bag \nEdwin Yearwood \nRihanna \n\nPolitical leaders\nSir Grantley Adams \nJ.M.G. Adams \nOwen Arthur \nErrol Barrow \nBussa \nAnne C. Cools \nDavid A. Comissiong \nSir Clifford Husbands \nDame Billie Miller \nRichard B. Moore \nCharles O'Neale \nClement Payne \nErskine Sandiford \n\nWriters and intellectuals\nEdward Brathwaite \nAustin Clarke \nGeorge Lamming
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Jesse Owens\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens\n\nHe won a ton of medals at the olympics with hitler directly looking on. It was a slap in the face after his propaganda of racial superiority among all aryans.
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I have never understood how athletes change citizenship to compete for another country. I think they just have to train here for a year and obtain duel citizenship and they can compete. I would think that posed an ethical issue. I heard last night someone’s father was American so he was competing here. Don't know about grandparents however.
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see  \nhttp://www.olympic-usa.org/12181_19096.htm
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HIppies!\nThey are so kind to the locals no matter where they are!\nThey have learned to say thank you in every language of every country they've been to during the Race.\n\nEVERY other team has had a moment (some and have had many) of rudeness to the 'locals' which has not been good to bring up the idea of nice Americans.\n\nThey are positive and bounce back (two times!) from those non-elimination rounds!\nThey rock!\n\nAlthough Ray & Yolanda are my next choice.\nNOT the frat boys!
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Hmm... I would try going to to the source below if you want to learn about famous black people, like Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nHope this helps and Good Luck!
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http://www.askginka.com/nationality/african_american.htm\n\nhttp://www.sweetbaysupermarket.com/Contents/Entertaining/Party_Planning/kwanzaa_party_ideas.shtml\n\nhttp://www.afriqueonline.com/Pages/Kwanzaa/AfriKwa1.html
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Louise Stokes and Tydie Pickett served as the first two African-American women to qualify for an Olympic team at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.  The two women were famous because of racial prejudices still in effect in the South that limited Black athletes.
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Congratulations to him.\n\nIn the past, many blacks came from the South where the climate doesn't favour winter sports. There were also cultural issues with many people in the South Side of Chicago looking down on Davis as a skater.\n\nI quote from an article in the San Jose Mercury News:\n\nReturning home was always the hardest part. Shani Davis would be 8 or 10 or 12, the age Saturday's dream actually began, and he'd get out of the car after practice, carrying his ice skates, wearing his speed skating tights.\n\nThe South Side of Chicago would welcome him.\n\n"You wear tights, girl?"\n\n"Is it Halloween?"\n\n"What kind of black boy ice skates?"\n\nIt may well be the same in Compton or Harlem. There is also talk of conflict with the US Speed Skating Associatin. Hopefully, Davis' success will make participation in winter sports easier for other athletes.
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PLease Allen's Biathalon Page into the yahoo search bar and this will lead you to, yes, Allen's biathalon page that has link to all regions of the country and race events and everything you need to know about summer(swim run) and winter biathalon too!! WHOO HOO!! KICK BUTT!!