{"id":63052,"date":"2022-02-13T05:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T05:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63052"},"modified":"2022-02-13T05:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T05:39:56","slug":"meet-the-first-black-skeleton-athlete-to-compete-for-the-u-s-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63052","title":{"rendered":"Meet the first Black skeleton athlete to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet the first Black skeleton athlete to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

National Public Radio<\/a>
\n2022-02-10<\/p>\n

Jaclyn Diaz<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n

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Kelly Curtis<\/a> stands next to the Olympic rings<\/a>. She’s competing in the skeleton<\/a> competition at the Beijing Olympics<\/a>.
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BEIJING<\/a> \u2014 Skeleton<\/a> is a heart-racing, adrenaline-fueled event where a single racer flies face-first down a frozen track, sometimes going more than 80 mph, belly-down on a sled.<\/p>\n

Kelly Curtis<\/a> is quick to acknowledge this sport is “crazy.” That doesn’t make her love it any less.<\/p>\n

The event has been a mainstay at the Winter Games<\/a> since 2002. At the Beijing Winter Olympics<\/a>, just three Americans will compete for a medal \u2014 and Curtis is one of them.<\/p>\n

As soon as Curtis shot herself down a topsy-turvy track in Beijing on Friday, she made history.<\/p>\n

Curtis is the first Black athlete, man or woman, to represent the U.S. at the Olympics in skeleton. The 33-year-old is also the only member of the U.S. Air Force<\/a> at this year’s Winter Games.<\/p>\n

Curtis joins a small group of Black athletes competing for the U.S. at the Beijing Olympics…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the first Black skeleton athlete to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics National Public Radio 2022-02-10 Jaclyn Diaz, Reporter Kelly Curtis stands next to the Olympic rings. She’s competing in the skeleton competition at the Beijing Olympics. IBSF BEIJING \u2014 Skeleton is a heart-racing, adrenaline-fueled event where a single racer flies face-first down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20,25],"tags":[33006,33010,221,33004,33007,2309,2833,7222,33008,33009,33005],"class_list":["post-63052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-2022-winter-olympics","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-jaclyn-diaz","tag-kelly-curtis","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-sports","tag-u-s-air-force","tag-united-states-air-force","tag-xxiv-olympic-winter-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63053,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63052\/revisions\/63053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}