His decision to ditch the other guys at the last minute was so incredibly classless; if you don't want to participate, don't sign up in the first place. I'm Chicago, and many people who were pulling for him were very turned off by that. (It was all over local talk radio last week). Plus, he and his stage mom rub lots of people in the US Speedskating the wrong way with their false accusations of racism.
BTW, I very much resent the implication that I'm racist... Just because the guy's the first black athlete to win an individual gold medal doesn't give him a pass to act like a complete jerk.
I am late to this discussion of Davis...and I see that he is getting ready to race..
Could you fill me in on the situation you were referring to, about "ditching the other guys at the last minute...", and what about his mom??
Lucky for me....NBC is doing his story right now...and lucky for YOU...since you don't have to fill me in!!
I suppose a lot of people can be turned off by this or that--a lot has happened already in these Olympics--with athletes showing off and behaving like hot dogs and/or being careless. But it appears to me that athletes must do essentially what they think it's best for them. As to racism, I believe that many people are still quite racist in many ways and wouldn't be surprised if the lone black athlete in the Olympics has been the recipient of that veiled racism by others, consciously or unconsciously, and/or even so by people of his own race for going for it in a practically all-white sport. BTW, a point of information irrelevant to your comment, Hispanics are not a separate race, namely, "non-white," as they are sometimes classified in certain rosters. There are Black and Asian Hispanics. Jeniffer Rodriguez is a white girl who happens to be Hispanic--like moi.