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The Associated Press (AP) accused several European nations competing in the Winter Olympics of having a lack of diversity on their teams, claiming they are “overwhelmingly white.”
In an article from the AP, the outlet highlighted how “immigration from Africa and the Middle East has transformed the demographics of Europe in recent decades.” The outlet also noted that while the United States was “sending one of its most diverse teams,” the team rosters for countries such as France, Germany, and Switzerland “look a lot like Sweden’s: overwhelmingly white and lacking the immigrant representation.”
“At the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Sweden is sending a team made up almost exclusively of ethnically Swedish athletes, with NHL player Mika Zibanejad, whose father is from Iran, a rare exception,” the AP wrote. “That hardly reflects the diversity of the Nordic country: About 2 million of its 10 million residents were born abroad, about half of them in Asia or Africa, according to national statistics agency SCB.”
The AP article continued in part:
The lack of athletes of color at the Winter Olympics — and in winter sports in general — has been a recurring theme in the U.S., which is sending one of its most diverse teams to the Games. It hasn’t gotten the same attention in Europe.
The Olympic rosters of France, Germany, Switzerland and other European winter sports nations look a lot like Sweden’s: overwhelmingly white and lacking the immigrant representation seen in their soccer or basketball teams.
The U.S. is not alone in grappling with diversity in winter sports. In Europe, immigration from Africa and the Middle East has rapidly changed the demographics of the top winter sports countries. That won't be reflected in their rosters for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. pic.twitter.com/VvUmRIt1Nz
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 29, 2026
In the article, Maryan Hashi — a Somali migrant, who “came to Sweden with her family in 2009” explained to the outlet how it wasn’t until 2018 that she discovered “there was a ski slope five minutes from her home, after a co-worker suggested she try snowboarding as part of a pilot integration project.”
“When you don’t have information or access or anybody around you does it — snowboarding is basically a white sport — and when you’re not correctly integrated into the community, you don’t know much about it,” Hashi told the outlet.
Josef Fahlen, who works as a “professor of sport pedagogy at Umea University in Sweden,” explained to the outlet how “the children of non-European immigrants are unlikely to be introduced to sports that their parents are not familiar with.”: --->READ MORE HERE
“Wait, you’re telling me people from the Middle East and Africa aren’t dominating Alpine Skiing events?”
Fresh off the news that the UK government has deemed that the pastoral English countryside is too “white” and must be forcibly diversified by Third World hordes littering and defecating in public, comes a new judgment from the diversity racists: the Winter Olympics are also unforgivably white.
In a recent article, the Associated Press (AP), a mainstream media organization which, like all mainstream media organizations, is utterly lacking in political diversity (despite promoting itself as “news without an agenda”), accused several European nations competing in the Winter Olympics of the capital sin of being “overwhelmingly white.”
The article by “Europe-based sports writer” Steve Douglas, who is white, noted approvingly that the United States was “sending one of its most diverse teams” to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, but those bigoted European nations weren’t giving the issue enough attention. “Immigration from Africa and the Middle East has transformed the demographics of Europe in recent decades,” the AP article continued, but the team rosters for countries such as France, Germany, and Switzerland “look a lot like Sweden’s: overwhelmingly white and lacking the immigrant representation.”
“Sweden is sending a team made up almost exclusively of ethnically Swedish athletes, with NHL player Mika Zibanejad, whose father is from Iran, a rare exception,” the AP lamented. “That hardly reflects the diversity of the Nordic country: About 2 million of its 10 million residents were born abroad, about half of them in Asia or Africa, according to national statistics agency SCB.”
The diversity racists always point to demographic “representation” as a marker of a society’s bigotry; if any demographic is not as fully represented on, say, an Olympic team as it is in the general population, the explanation must be systemic racism. Never mind that recent immigrants to white-majority European nations from Africa or the Middle East almost certainly have no experience with, much less Olympic-level skill at, sports like downhill skiing or bobsledding. Maybe they don’t even have any interest in them. That’s all irrelevant to the diversity racists.
In the article, Maryan Hashi — a Somali migrant who came to Sweden with her family in 2009 – said it wasn’t until 2018 that she discovered “there was a ski slope five minutes from her home, after a co-worker suggested she try snowboarding as part of a pilot integration project.”
“When you don’t have information or access or anybody around you does it — snowboarding is basically a white sport — and when you’re not correctly integrated into the community, you don’t know much about it,” Hashi told the AP, apparently blaming “the community” for not “correctly” integrating her.
This also raises the point that many – arguably even most – immigrants to Europe from Africa and the Middle East are less interested in integration than they are in domination, but that is a whole other topic of discussion.
Josef Fahlen, a professor of sport pedagogy at Umea University in Sweden, offered to the AP the commonsense explanation that “the children of non-European immigrants are unlikely to be introduced to sports that their parents are not familiar with.” He pointed to the example of Alexander Isak, a black soccer player on the Swedish team whose parents are from Eritrea. “It makes total sense” that Isak found his way into football “because football exists in Eritrea. Skiing doesn’t,” Fahlen said. --->READ MORE HERE
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