Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
Lewis Hamilton could be the greatest his sport has ever seen .

Some say Pele was also a great.

I just like to consider them as great sporting individuals, not sure where skin colour plays a part really .
In the case of Tiger Woods, it plays a part because black people used to be banned from golf courses.

I don't know if black people were ever banned from tennis clubs; I bet at times there have been big barriers to them joining, if not an official ban.

These are sports where a bit of money traditionally used to be needed to start up, unlike rugby or football, say. And traditionally, in the US and Europe, black people generally had a lot less.

So skin colour has loads to do with it. I bet it was a lot harder for Williams and Woods when they were young than their white peers - perhaps that's where the drive to win comes from.