#african american athletes

[yourdailyqueer]

Lucy Diggs Slowe (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 4 July 1885 

RIP: 21 October 1937

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Former prof tennis player, professor, activist

Note of firsts: First Black woman to serve as Dean of Women at any American university. Won the national title of the American Tennis Association's first tournament in 1917, the first African-American woman to win a major sports title. First person from her school to attend Howard University.

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Muhammad Ali drawing with LeRoy Neiman during training for his comeback from exile against Jerry Quarry in 1970.

Photos by Paul Slade

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Wilma Rudolph Begins Her Run

On June 23, 1940, track icon Wilma Rudolph was born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. Rudolph overcame polio and became the fastest woman in the world. In 1960, she won three gold medals at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy.Jun 8, 2023

Happy heavenly birthday 🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉

[tredawakandan]

The hate against Lyles from this Olympics has been wild😅. Listen I don't really rock with his finger nail paintin but that doesn't mean imma deny his skill. We gotta tackle the unneeded hate in his two different Olympic races.

100 meter Dash: Why is Lyles getting criticized for him winning a race even if it was close. The amount of delusional people watching the race and not knowing the Torso crossing the line is what defines the winner is insane 😭. You don't see ribbons at the ankle or foot for races do you😅. Let's go back to the Beijing World Championship race between Justin Gatlin & Usain Bolt. Now of course Bolt is the fastest ever in this race but he also won by a close margin here. And guess what he dipped his chest to solidify his win 👌🏿🤣. How crazy it is to justify folks biasness and delusional 💀

200 meter Dash: Lyles has has been undefeated in the 200m for the last 3yrs and folks confidently believe he just decided to lose . Or better yet because Tebogo & Kenny were too insanely fast. As explained in my other thread (search Lyles tag on page) Two things can be right and done. We can both congratulate Tebogo on the race and actually understand Lyles had caught Covid. You're telling me it's insane to believe Covid slowed down a guy who never lost a 200m race in 3yrs😭. Also let the record show in both the 100m & 200m Lyles has always placed better than Tebogo in a race. Lyles literally one the 100m Olympic race with Tebogo in it. So what changed from the 100m to 200m🤔. I don't wanna keep harping on it because ultimately a race is won by whoever is the best on that day. Letsile won and should celebrate his Gold 🥇. But let's just stop the Lies on Lyles like he's just slow compared to Tebogo.

To reiterate: Lyles has placed Better 7/7 times he raced Tebogo before the Olympics. After the Olympics the record is Lyles has won 8/10 races between them.

As I mentioned in the Link folks hate confident Black People in any forum. Sports is no exception . Read it and understand I won't ever go against my own 👌🏿

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Florence Griffith Joyner &

Jackie Joyner Kersee 🥇

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"LUTHER McCARTY, the latest "white hope," conqueror of Jim Flynn and Al. Palzer, who claims the white heavyweight championship of the world. McCarty, on the left, is talking to Tommy Burns, of Calgary, the former world's champion, who was defeated by Jack Johnson for the title." - from the Toronto Star. January 18, 1913. Page 21.

[seedlessmuffins]

what footballers do you think would make good hockey players

hi max!

sorry this is so late i had to really think about this. to me, there are two ways to go about this: one, who (right now) could realistically go onto the ice and play a game of hockey. the other is who (hypothetically, if they played hockey instead of football since they were a kid) would succeed in the sport.

for the first one, i literally cannot think of a single player. sorry footballers of the world, but skating is a skill that im not sure many footballers know how to do. let alone the rest of the sport, hockey is so so different than football. this sounds really mean! i don't mean to be mean, but the athleticism that hockey players have is quite different than most other sports. a lot of other sports' skills transfer between sports well, but hockey is an outlier in terms of popular world sports.

for the second one, honestly not many? the one that stands out to me is probably sergio ramos, mostly because he is very skilled with the ball and blocking shots, and obviously he has killer instinct on the field which all would transfer very well to hockey. he would thrive! he could fight and slash and check to his heart's content with only penalty being 2 minutes in the box, not a game ejection.

i think the funnier question would be what players would be terrible at hockey, like if you put them in the nhl they would just wilt. the one that i think of immediately is neymar! sorry ney, but you and your glass ankles would be absolutely destroyed in hockey! and idk if he has the hand-eye coordination to transfer his jogo bonito with his feet to his hands for beautiful dangles. the other one who i think would suffer is haaland, because even though he is really tall and broad, i think on skates he would turn into bambi! there are other players in the nhl who are that tall and broad, but they know how to use their height to absolutely crush people on the ice, and i don't think haaland knows how to do that.

also could you imagine the instincts football players would have? they hear the whistle, hands up, get called for high sticking! at the end of the third period its a draw, they are ready to go home but there is more game to play! they try to clear the puck over the glass to get a throw in, but there aren't any throw ins, and he goes to the box for delay of game!

tl:dr i would love to see footballers play hockey i think it would be so funny, but i don't think any of them would be good at it unless we lived in an alternate universe where they grew up playing hockey, but even then idk how good they would be

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Cornelius Johnson, First Black Athlete to Win a Gold Medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1936

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Valerie Brisco-Hooks

Track and field athlete Valerie Brisco-Hooks was born in 1960 in Greenwood, Missisippi. At the 1984 Olympics, Brisco-Hooks won gold medals in the 200 meters, the 400 meters, and the 4x400 meter relay. Her time of 48.83 seconds in the 400 meters set a new Olympic record. At the 1988 Olympics, Brisco-Hooks won a silver medal in the 4x400 meter relay.

[yourdailyqueer]

Sasha Mallory

Gender: Non binary (she/they/ze)

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 6 August 1988

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Prof dancer, choreographer, reality star

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O.J. Simpson posing with his wife Marguerite Simpson, daughter Arnelle, and son Jason in Buffalo, New York on October 10, 1973.

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Adidas Indoor National Champion Calvert Hall College Athletics

The makings of an all rounder 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💪🏾💪🏾

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Shoes worn and signed by Jackie Joyner-Kersee. An American track and field athlete.

1984 Olympic Trials.

Currently housed in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.