Prejudice And Discrimination In Sports

Around the world thousands of thousands of athletes are being discriminated on the daily just because of the way they look. The color of their skin is what is most prominently used to discriminate against. It is most difficult for an athlete to go through this type of discrimination because the athletes must keep their calm and stay professional even if in reality they are hurting. Throughout history athletes have been discriminated against but over time athletes have gotten more rights and sport federations are trying to help. Athletes should not have to deal with any form of hate or discrimination at all whether they are playing the sports they are passionate about or if they are out for dinner.
To begin there is no reason on why an athlete should be
Athletes all have different ways of handling discrimination. One may be able to ignore it or tolerate it while others can break down and have a bad reaction to it. We can see how one athlete is particular handles a situation very well. His name is Dani Alves, a Brazilian soccer star, who during a match had a banana thrown at him and then proceeded to eat the banana and continue on with the match. In the article “Villarreal gave a life ban to rogue fan who threw banana at Dani Alves” by Tom McGowan and Paul Gittings, talks about this incident and how professionally Alves acted. In the article Alves states that “We aren't going to change things easily. If you don't give it importance, they don't achieve their objective” (Dani Alves). Dani Alves couldn't have handled this situation any better, he didn't give way to the racist remarks and continued the game. Alves also said jokingly that his father always told him to eat bananas to prevent a cramp. Although Alves was able to tolerate and handle the situation there are still athletes who cannot like the Ghanaian soccer player, Kevin-Prince Boateng. In this incident fans of the opposing