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link: Winter Olympics: top Asian-American women struggle to deal with duality of racism at home and adulation on the global stage | South China Morning Post (scmp.com)
“It’s like Asian-American women can’t win,” said Jeff Yang, an author and cultural critic. “Asian-American female athletes, like most Asian-American women in many other spaces, are seen as worthy when they can deliver … and then disposed of otherwise.”
The issue is playing out at the Beijing Winter Games, the third straight Olympics set in Asia and the second held during the unrelenting global coronavirus crisis – and playing out, too, during a rise in hate crimes against Asian-Americans.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/21/sport/winter-olympics-elite-wealthy-intl-spt/index.html
But athletes from Africa, South Asia, as well as those from smaller island nations still find themselves struggling to qualify for competition in the Winter Olympics due to warmer climates, the prohibitively high cost of equipment, lack of infrastructure and limited opportunities to practice and compete.
