"Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention."
--Bryant Gumbel

This is a ridiculous comment. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't care less about 95% of the sports in the Winter Olympics, but I think the athletes in Torino really are the best at what they do. Maybe they're not the fastest in the 100-meter dash or they can't jump high or they can't shoot a ball in a basket, but that's not what they specialize in. That's not what THEY do. They ski or they skate. Just because black people don't like these sports enough to play them, doesn't mean it's somehow laughable to call the people who excel in them great athletes.