so, what is the whitest possible sport?

[paulkienitz]

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In the past, golf and tennis used to be pretty darn white, but nowadays if we want a really white sport, it had better be something involving snow or ice. So the obvious nominees are:

- hockey
- speed skating
- figure skating
- bobsled/luge/skeleton
- downhill skiing
- cross-country skiing

...but in my opinion, the best nominee is the one that combines skis with guns, WINTER BIATHLON. Now that's white.

[woops, forgot curling!]

[HipChick]

1. Jamaican Bobsled Team Wins North American Cup Medal...

https://jamaicans.com/jamaican-bobsled-team-wins-north-american-cup-medal/

[malaise]

51. Ha - tell them

[Midnight Writer]

2. Cornholing.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. You DO mean the beanbag-toss game, right?

[pdxflyboy]

3. Polo on horseback?

[pnwest]

12. That's what I came here to say...

[paulkienitz]

13. too close to buzkashi

[Celerity]

24. tonnes of rich, non whites play polo nt

[Celerity]

98. Asians, Arabs, SA Latinos, it's a global thing, so ...sure Jan, back at you.

[lagomorph777]

67. Or maybe yacht racing?

[NewHendoLib]

5. Pickup truck driving with a big confederate flag attached to the cab

Popular sport in big box store parking lots in my town

[Lunabell]

6. Badminton

Or croquet.

[cinematicdiversions]

28. Badminton is almost all Asians.

Are we considering them white for the purpose of the poll?

[Lunabell]

42. Wow, lighten up!

Sorry if I offended you!

[cinematicdiversions]

45. Not offended you just couldn't be more wrong.

It is like your answer was boxing or basketball.

[Lunabell]

49. I just had the visual of Victorian ladies playing nicely on their lawns.

But damn, y'all don't have to jump down my throat because I made a mistake!

[Celerity]

36. so many Asians play badminton, some of the best players in the world are Asian

[ProfessorGAC]

93. Speaking Of That...

...I watched the badminton world championships on The Olympic Channel a few months back.
I think it was the doubles semifinal. Both teams were guys from India.
Those dudes are SERIOUS. Beautiful feathery touch in lobs and blasting shots at the net. Those guys were hitting the birdie 80 mph!
Pretty cool!

[LiberatedUSA]

70. Nobody has mentioned Lacrosse yet.

If we are going to a thread like this, I feel like that one should at least get a mention.

[robbob]

73. Lacrosse was invented by Native Americans

Don’t know how they represent on the professional level, but it’s a very popular sport for the young people.

[Dirty Socialist]

7. Add Curling, eh?

[Hoyt]

54. Looked it up. Honorary captain of the 2014 U.S. Olympic curling team--

?width=1320&height=746&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2013/02/27/vernon-davis-san-francisco-49ers-curling/1952055/

And for the upcoming Winter Olympics:



https://www.essence.com/in-her-we-trust/curlers-auria-moore-porsche-stephenson/

[ironflange]

77. Curling is big in China

[spooky3]

8. Aside from its Native American history, how about lacrosse? Nt

[aaaaaa5a]

43. Jim Brown is widely regarded as the greatest

Lacrosse player in the history of the sport.

[Celerity]

46. Lacrosse players by race

https://www.zippia.com/lacrosse-player-jobs/demographics/

[spooky3]

55. Thanks. That is a lot better than I thought. Nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

104. This analysis applies only to people who are paid to play lacrosse.

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That's not a whole lot of people.

I don't think it includes coaches or team staff members.

How about at the collegiate and high school levels?

[Celerity]

105. Here

Analyzing 2020 NCAA Demographic Survey: Lacrosse Is 40% More Diverse Than in 2012

https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/analyzing-2020-ncaa-demographic-survey-lacrosse-is-40-more-diverse-than-in-2012/58299


One of the nation’s best young lacrosse players confronts the lack of diversity in her sport

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/11/one-nations-best-young-lacrosse-players-confronts-lack-diversity-her-sport/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

106. Good choice, linking to Inside Lacrosse.

I'll raise you one.

Harlem Lacrosse

I'll read the WaPo article when I have the chance.

Thanks.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Big game hunting. Bonus points for shooting from a helicopter.

[Dirty Socialist]

14. Not figure skating

There was a black French lady figure skater that was really good. I think her name was Sarah Bonaly.

[róisín_dubh]

25. Surya :)

[Dirty Socialist]

32. That's right!

She did a somersault in competition. Awesome!

[Act_of_Reparation]

15. Bowling.

[RussBLib]

16. lynching nt

[cinematicdiversions]

21. In all fairness lynching usually involves one minority participant? No? NT

[RussBLib]

23. indeed

[Scrivener7]

35. Are you two supposed to be funny?

[SunSeeker]

39. Participant suggests voluntary involvement, so no. nt

[Voltaire2]

96. No.

[cinematicdiversions]

17. In my neck of the woods Short distance charity runs

You want to see twenty thousand white people in one place show up for the 10k Turkey trot.

You would think that the minority population was under 1 percent looking at the crowd.

[radicalleft]

18. Answer here

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-whitest-sport

Curling. 110% white. You won’t find so much as a suntan in the participants.

[MineralMan]

27. Any equestrian sport.

Also rowing and crew racing.

[BradAllison]

48. Cool story, bro.

https://www.essence.com/in-her-we-trust/curlers-auria-moore-porsche-stephenson/



Just three months after that first Learn to Curl class, they were playing at the state level. Within 10 months, they were asked to represent the Wine Country Curling Club in competition by its president (and their trainer) Bob Kuhl. They’ve played in invitation-only tournaments—they’re called “bonspiels”—that pit them against international champions and curling veterans with 20 or 30 years of experience behind them, encountering other Black curlers only once or twice. They are very likely the only consistent two-member team of Black women playing the sport. Even when they pair up with other duos to create four-person teams, Moore and Stephenson make it very clear that it’s important for them to always play together as teammates. “Some amazing barriers are being opened. We’re history in the making. Even us just being in California is historic,” said Stephenson. “Almost all of the curlers that compete like we do are from icy states: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alaska. Here we are—Cali baby.” Last year, Team Moore and Stephenson medaled for the first time and, because they’re top competitors, they did it twice, placing second in the California competition and third in the Arena National Championships. Now they’re vying for spots on the High-Performance Program—or “the HPP team”—which is basically the NBA of curling and focused on building the momentum to qualify for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. “Our ultimate goal is to be able to represent the US in international competition,” Stephenson added, “and that includes aspiring to win our national and world competitions so that we can wear Team USA on our backs.”

[tenderfoot]

20. Rolling Coal

eom

[Efilroft Sul]

22. Punching down on the poors.

[cinematicdiversions]

26. I have to disagree there. Punching down on the poors is a very integrated experience. NT

[Efilroft Sul]

59. That's cool; your mileage may vary. In my life, it's very much one color that dominates this sport.

[cinematicdiversions]

60. American whites get the bronze perhaps....

But I assure you that both south and east Asians easily dominate the sport...

All in good fun.

[sarisataka]

29. Wow

[GoCubsGo]

65. Indeed.

Yikes!

[CrackityJones75]

69. Right???

WTF is going on here?

[Emile]

30. Fencing?

[UnderThisLaw]

31. Is the

“DU is no better than QAnon” crowd on a meal break? I thought they’d be all over this thread

On edit: One showed up as I was posting. I’m relieved

[Solly Mack]

33. "but nowadays if we want a really white sport"

Damn

[JT45242]

34. swimming

Access to pools, expensive coaching.

Competition suits that cost over $600 for even HS swimmers plus the legacy of Jim Crow and blacks not allowed access to pools.

[mathematic]

37. Once again, asians are counted as white.

Did you know(tm) that many asian people are from places with snow and ice?

I will not be entertaining replies that ignore, diminish, or otherwise minimize the participation of asian people in these sports.

[Dirty Socialist]

40. Badminton too

[cinematicdiversions]

41. The Badminton response is really bizarre. One of the most Asian sports around.

But to some people, unless you identify as black, you are actually white and that includes Italians, Irish, Asians, Hispanics and well everyone else.

[LuckyCharms]

38. Downhill Splooge.

[LW1977]

44. I was gonna say golf

[MurrayDelph]

47. Naked Snow

Hide & Seek

[BlackSkimmer]

53. Wow, this thread.

[moondust]

56. Incidentally,

IMO TFG went all in for golf because when he was younger the game was a "club" almost exclusively for rich white guys.

[paulkienitz]

58. right, it's the perfect place to hang out with other privileged people

surrounded by an obsequious servant class.

[Triloon]

57. Oh cool... race jokes...

[leighbythesea2]

61. Equestrian

Anything w horses.

[Atticus]

62. Voter suppression. nt

[Atticus]

63. Mass shootings. nt

[jcmaine72]

64. Online trolling

[Scrivener7]

92. Well done.

[MissB]

66. Rowing

[Caliman73]

68. What is the purpose of the question?

Sports are typically considered "White" because they had historically excluded people of color, either explicitly (as in No Blacks Allowed) like in the early days, to the 1940's in Baseball, the early days of Basketball, Swimming, etc... OR they excluded by other means typically financial and then the "culture" aspect again, you can point to the exclusion of Black people from municipal swimming pools as a reason why there are so few Black swimmers in the United States.

When you talk about "Snow" sports, well then geographical differences in skin color come into play. There is little snow, where the people of the world have the darkest skin color. That is just a fact of geography and biological analogs. Certainly there are Black and Brown people who ski, but you don't see high numbers because in areas of the world where people have dark skin, there is very little snow. Add to that, it is expensive to learn to ski so people who have not been exposed to the sport as a part of growing up in a country where it is popular, or in a family that is amenable and able to afford to participating.

Also, how are we defining White here? I am considered "White" as part of the Census, though I have never and would not ever consider myself as White.

[paulkienitz]

71. the purpose of the question is for people to have fun with it

and it seems to be succeeding at that purpose.

[sarisataka]

86. Well if the purpose is just for people to have fun

Post it again focusing on another race

[Caliman73]

88. Can you define "fun"?

I am not seeing the "fun" in the topic.

I see people, I assume, making fun of White people, or maybe rich people. What I didn't see is your response to my second question.

How are you defining White?

[paulkienitz]

97. if you're not enjoying the show you don't have to watch it

[Caliman73]

100. So then, no answer?

I tend to want to know why people say and do the things they do. Defining terms is an important issue when discussing things.

How you define "White" and "fun" would shed a lot of light as to what you may be trying to convey.

[paulkienitz]

101. defining "fun" is not a fun activity.

This is getting into the neighborhood of the famously futile activity of trying to explain a joke to someone who doesn't see the humor.

[tenderfoot]

91. LULZ

[StevieM]

72. Aren't many of the top speed skaters from South Korea?

And I know that some of the top figure skaters from Japan.

[Ron Obvious]

82. Short track

Yes, if by speed-skating you mean that silly roller derby on ice called "Short Track" where everybody rides in a pack, the guy in front falls - taking down everybody right behind him - and the guy in the back wins as the last man upright. Stupid sport.

Real speed skating involves two participants in separate lanes over distance, and that's dominated by northern Europeans, the Dutch in particular.

[BoomaofBandM]

74. Cow tipping.

[Bev54]

75. The NHL is changing but the vast majority of non whites playing hockey in

the NHL are from Canada.

[Demovictory9]

76. not ice skating anymore - see video

[Patterson]

78. Fly fishing, cat fish noodling.

[dclarston13]

80. Norwegian Handball

[tishaLA]

81. Figure skating? The US always has Asian American skaters

on their team for world championships and Olympics.

[tblue37]

83. Lacrosse?

[iemanja]

84. that horse dancing thing

What Snoop called a crip walk.

[BlackSkimmer]

102. Dressage. nt

[lpbk2713]

85. Iditarod

It's racing, so I guess that makes it a sport.

[Bonx]

87. Race baiting?

[NurseJackie]

89. Boom!

[Yandex]

90. Backwoods butt-fucking? n/t

[Redford]

94. Dressage and Show Jumping

by the way, this is divisive

[Hotler]

95. Cornhole. nt

[rgbecker]

99. How about Formula One Auto racing?

Blacks are struggling to get into the sport of auto racing at all levels.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/08/lewis-hamilton-is-still-the-only-black-driver-the-dads-fighting-racism-in-formula-1-13378280/

[bif]

103. Hurling

The Irish sport. (Not vomiting)