Jemele Hill on Gwen Berry: Olympics Rules ‘Disproportionately Impact’ Black Athletes

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HILL: “Well, thank you ladies for having me. But when you look at the full scope of what we see happening at the Olympics, Simone Biles is probably the face of this Olympic games, at least from an American perspective. And then you have the controversy around Gwen Berry, you fast forward to what happened with Sha'Carri Richardson. Now you have this swim cap ban that obviously affects athletes of color. Obviously is an impediment to young black swimmers. And so there is something that is there, and you wonder about these old-school attitudes and how they have always in many ways disproportionately impacted athletes of color, but in particular black people because that’s who we’re talking about here.”