see earlier post about being stopped in London for a minor offence
maybe crime happens in certain areas, and maybe those areas have higher than average BAME residents. It should not surprise you that more crime happens in Ely than say Cyncoed. People's skin colour is nothing to do with it, whereas social circumstance plays are very large part.
I doubt anyone on hear, including you, could identify them as athletes before this incident.
maybe after a search the police realised the smell was coming from elsewhere.
once again you're a SJW who likes to believe one version without establishing the full facts. we have no idea what happened as we don't have the full facts.