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Black people do not excel cycling. Getting one black person from the early part of the last century is a stupid as using the Jamacian Bobsleigh team as evidence for black people excelling in Alpine sports.You ignorant racist...lol.
Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor (November 26, 1878 – June 21, 1932) was an American track cyclist who began his amateur career while he was still a teenager in Indianapolis, Indiana. He became a professional racer in 1896, at the age of 18, and won the sprint event at the 1899 world track championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to become the first African American to achieve the level of world champion and the second black athlete to win a world championship in any sport. Taylor also set numerous world records in the sprint discipline in race distances ranging from the quarter-mile (0.4 km) to the two-mile (3.2 km). Taylor was an American sprint champion in 1899 and 1900, and competed races in the U.S., Europe and Australasia. He retired in 1910, at the age of 32, to his home in Worcester, Massachusetts.
As Taylor gained notoriety as an amateur and a professional, he did not escape racial segregation. The 1890s was the decade that saw the highest number of recorded lynchings in the U.S.[110] In 1894, the LAW changed its bylaws to exclude blacks from membership; however, it did permit them to compete in its races. Although Taylor's cycling was greatly celebrated abroad, particularly in France, his career was still restricted by racism, particularly in the Southern U.S., where some local promoters would not permit Taylor to compete against white cyclists
While some of Taylor's fellow racers refused to compete with him, others resorted to intimidation, verbal insults, and threats to physically harm him.[5] While racing in Savannah, Georgia in the Winter of 1898, he received a written threat saying "Clear out if you value your life"; the previous day Taylor had challenged three riders together to a race after one of them had said they "didn't pace *******."[120] Taylor recalled that ice water had been thrown at him during races and nails were scattered in front of his wheels. Taylor further stated in his autobiography that he had been elbowed and "pocketed" (boxed in) by other riders to prevent him from sprinting to the front of the pack, a tactic at which he was so successful.[121][122][118][119]
Black people don't excel at sports as a whole. Black success at sports is narrowed down to about Basketball. American Football, Boxing,Track and Field, Soccer.....they're pretty much the only sports you'll see black people as a group excelling.
Now out the 100's of sports out there that's a very small %
But it is the money sports for the athletes.
