Come on #BlackExcellence! Take a look at just six of the black athletes competing in the 2018 #WinterOlympics!
First we have, Eighteen-year-old Maame Afua Biney, of Reston, Virginia, the first African-American woman to qualify for a US Olympic speed skating team.
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Next up, Aja Evans, 29 will be returning to bobsled for Team USA after having won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Games.
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Team USA bobsledder Hakeem Abdul-Saboor, 30, was personally recruited after an Olympic stretch coach saw a video of Hakeem jumping and touching his head to a 10-foot ceiling.
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Ekemini Bassey age 30 from Vienna Austria, will be bobsledding for Austria. The decorated sprinter took up the winter sport in 2016.
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Alpine Skier Sabrina Wanjiku Simader, 19, will be the first athlete to represent Kenya in the Winter Olympics
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Four-time medalist Shani Davis (35) will be speedskating for Team USA. In 2006, he became the first black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual sport — the 1000 meter event — at the Winter Games and, in 2010, the first man to successfully defend the 1000 meter gold medal.
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According to BuzzFeed, of the 2,952 athletes competing at this year’s Winter Olympics, only 41 (1.39-percent) of those athletes are black. Check out the entire list of remarkable individuals by clicking here.