Black Speed Skater, Shani Davis

I never heard of this guy before. Do your thing playboy

Look out world.
That's the message American speedskater Shani Davis had for his opponents after he blazed to pair of world records over the weekend at a World Cup event in Utah. Davis won the 1,000 and 1,500-meters in grand style, setting new marks on back-to-back days. For his efforts, he unanimously earned USA TODAY's Olympic Athlete of the Week award.


The big wins closed the World Cup season and come just a week before the World Championships in Vancouver. Interestingly, Davis swiped the kilometer record from his teammate Trevor Marsciano, who had just set a mark of 1 minute, 6.88 seconds 20 minutes earlier. Davis' new mark stands at 1:06:42. His record for 1,500 meters is 1:41.80, which was 21 hundredths of a second faster than the previous mark, set last year.Davis said this weekend's meet will be an important benchmark for skaters with Olympic aspirations, since it's at the oval that will host the event at the 2010 Games. Other Olympic athletes who impressed our panel included

 

Winter sports now. Is there any frontier remaining? Equestrian events maybe?

 

How about the NHL??

 

I think there are already a couple of brothers playing who are pretty good.

 

Not really.

 

I remember him from the last Winter Games..he skated for I think the Netherlands or Denmark but not the U.S.A.
There was some drama between the U.S. team and his coach/momma!!!!!
He's been around for a bit but didn't get the P.R. 'cos he skated behind another flag and his momma.

 

Jarome Iginla:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarome_Iginla

Jamal Mayers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Mayers

Fred Brathwaite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brathwaite

 

There are a few others too:

Mike Grier
Peter Worrell
Kevin Weeks

 

cosign...

if i recall correctly, the NHL has/had a team with a black captain...

u dont get captainship from being a bum...

see how easy things become without segregation and overt racism.

 

Here is a list of all active black NHL players:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_NHL_players

Willie Gault was a winter olympian back in the day:

January 29, 1988
Gault on Bobsled Squad
AP
Willie Gault, the Chicago Bears wide receiver, was named today to the men's bobsled team that will compete for the United States in the Winter Olympics next month at Calgary.

 

Its funny, most of the good ice hockey players that are black are from Canada.