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MelbuFrahma4 02/06/22 3:37:39 PM #1:	https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/beijing/2022/02/05/where-people-color-winter-olympics/9257293002/ The ski lift operators would slow the chairlift down for him, not knowing that Andre Horton was an Olympic skier. They assumed that the Black man would move on skis like a clown on stilts. Later that day, theyd see the first Black alpine skier in Team USA history and eek out an apology as he went up the mountain again. What Horton faces is a reality of the winter sports industry in the United States, which in turn impacts the 223-member athlete delegation that will represent the country in the Beijing Olympics: the painfully obvious lack of diversity. A 2019 survey of parents done by Utah State University and the Aspen Institute found that those two sports skiing and ice hockey were the two most expensive sports of the 21 they asked about. They were also the only two winter sports surveyed. The average family spent more than $2,500 on ice hockey costs in a year. The skiing and snowboarding price was $2,249. Thats more than three times the average cost for all sports annually ($693). In 2017, the average U.S. weekend window lift ticket price was $122.30, per National Ski Areas Association data. According to data from Aspens Reimagining School Sports initiative, compiled via a national survey of about 6,000 high school students, only 1% of Black respondents said they skied or snowboarded outside of school. The number was 0% for Hispanic students, but 4% for white kids. For ice hockey, it was 1% for both races, and three times higher for white people. "I would love to see more people getting out and trying these winter sports," Team USA speed skater Erin Jackson, who is Black, told my colleague Tom Schad recently. "And sometimes to do that, it takes a bit of outreach you know, especially with a sport that's as expensive as speed skating. It's not something that anyone can just, like, walk in off the street and say, Oh, I wanna try this. It's really expensive to get into." --- "We'll never see Day-Lewis and Kubrick, or Kurosawa and Eastwood, but we have seen Bale and Nolan, a cinematic dream pairing come to life!" <cite>MelbuFrahma4 posted [p:962416775] in Where are ... [t:79887073]...</cite> <quote>https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/beijing/2022/02/05/where-people-color-winter-olympics/9257293002/ The ski lift operators would slow the chairlift down for him, not knowing that Andre Horton was an Olympic skier. They assumed that the Black man would move on skis like a clown on stilts. Later that day, theyd see the first Black alpine skier in Team USA history and eek out an apology as he went up the mountain again. What Horton faces is a reality of the winter sports industry in the United States, which in turn impacts the 223-member athlete delegation that will represent the country in the Beijing Olympics: the painfully obvious lack of diversity. A 2019 survey of parents done by Utah State University and the Aspen Institute found that those two sports skiing and ice hockey were the two most expensive sports of the 21 they asked about. They were also the only two winter sports surveyed. The average family spent more than $2,500 on ice hockey costs in a year. The skiing and snowboarding price was $2,249. Thats more than three times the average cost for all sports annually ($693). In 2017, the average U.S. weekend window lift ticket price was $122.30, per National Ski Areas Association data. According to data from Aspens Reimagining School Sports initiative, compiled via a national survey of about 6,000 high school students, only 1% of Black respondents said they skied or snowboarded outside of school. The number was 0% for Hispanic students, but 4% for white kids. For ice hockey, it was 1% for both races, and three times higher for white people. "I would love to see more people getting out and trying these winter sports," Team USA speed skater Erin Jackson, who is Black, told my colleague Tom Schad recently. "And sometimes to do that, it takes a bit of outreach you know, especially with a sport that's as expensive as speed skating. It's not something that anyone can just, like, walk in off the street and say, Oh, I wanna try this. It's really expensive to get into." </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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The ski lift operators would slow the chairlift down for him, not knowing that Andre Horton was an Olympic skier. They assumed that the Black man would move on skis like a clown on stilts. Later that day, theyd see the first Black alpine skier in Team USA history and eek out an apology as he went up the mountain again. What Horton faces is a reality of the winter sports industry in the United States, which in turn impacts the 223-member athlete delegation that will represent the country in the Beijing Olympics: the painfully obvious lack of diversity.

A 2019 survey of parents done by Utah State University and the Aspen Institute found that those two sports skiing and ice hockey were the two most expensive sports of the 21 they asked about. They were also the only two winter sports surveyed. The average family spent more than $2,500 on ice hockey costs in a year. The skiing and snowboarding price was $2,249. Thats more than three times the average cost for all sports annually ($693). In 2017, the average U.S. weekend window lift ticket price was $122.30, per National Ski Areas Association data. According to data from Aspens Reimagining School Sports initiative, compiled via a national survey of about 6,000 high school students, only 1% of Black respondents said they skied or snowboarded outside of school. The number was 0% for Hispanic students, but 4% for white kids. For ice hockey, it was 1% for both races, and three times higher for white people. "I would love to see more people getting out and trying these winter sports," Team USA speed skater Erin Jackson, who is Black, told my colleague Tom Schad recently. "And sometimes to do that, it takes a bit of outreach you know, especially with a sport that's as expensive as speed skating. It's not something that anyone can just, like, walk in off the street and say, Oh, I wanna try this. It's really expensive to get into."

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The ski lift operators would slow the chairlift down for him, not knowing that Andre Horton was an Olympic skier. They assumed that the Black man would move on skis like a clown on stilts. Later that day, theyd see the first Black alpine skier in Team USA history and eek out an apology as he went up the mountain again. What Horton faces is a reality of the winter sports industry in the United States, which in turn impacts the 223-member athlete delegation that will represent the country in the Beijing Olympics: the painfully obvious lack of diversity.

A 2019 survey of parents done by Utah State University and the Aspen Institute found that those two sports  skiing and ice hockey  were the two most expensive sports of the 21 they asked about. They were also the only two winter sports surveyed. The average family spent more than $2,500 on ice hockey costs in a year. The skiing and snowboarding price was $2,249. Thats more than three times the average cost for all sports annually ($693). In 2017,  the average U.S. weekend window lift ticket price was $122.30, per National Ski Areas Association data.  According to data from Aspens Reimagining School Sports initiative, compiled via a national survey of about 6,000 high school students, only 1% of Black respondents said they skied or snowboarded outside of school. The number was 0% for Hispanic students, but 4% for white kids. For ice hockey, it was 1% for both races, and three times higher for white people.  "I would love to see more people getting out and trying these winter sports," Team USA speed skater Erin Jackson, who is Black, told my colleague Tom Schad recently. "And sometimes to do that, it takes a bit of outreach you know, especially with a sport that's as expensive as speed skating. It's not something that anyone can just, like, walk in off the street and say, Oh, I wanna try this. It's really expensive to get into." 
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