It's not a surprise that a culture like that wouldn't keep many records of sports for people they viewed as inferior. Hate can do that.
In less serious things: The women who won the Heraean races were crowned with headdresses of olives and awarded a portion of the cow that was sacrificed to Hera.
Well, that's a bit different than I expected…
My next door neighbor (who is white) said throw out any talk of Babe Ruth being the greatest, because he only played against white boys. I can understand that.
It's not a surprise that a culture like that wouldn't keep many records of sports for people they viewed as inferior. Hate can do that.
In less serious things:
The women who won the Heraean races were crowned with headdresses of olives and awarded a portion of the cow that was sacrificed to Hera.
Well, that's a bit different than I expected…
Roast beef sammiches?
Really. See also: Negro Leagues in baseball
My next door neighbor (who is white) said throw out any talk of Babe Ruth being the greatest, because he only played against white boys. I can understand that.
Glad the women got to be athletes, even if it sucked that they weren't Olympians.
Ironically, he was the last Negro Leaguer to play in MLB. A HELL of a career.
Jim Rice was my hero. After hearing the racism he endured with the Sox ownership at the time, and also in Boston, I need to write him a letter.