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POV on racism in Spanish sports[edit]

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The British press has been keen in pointing to what they regard as incidents of racial abuse in Spanish sports, in particular racist abuse of non-caucasian sports players. This was the case with the comments of the former Spanish national mens' football team manager, Luis Aragonés, about black French footballer Thierry Henry; ^[1]^[2] who asked a defender to pay particular attention to "the black one". Later on, he insisted in that no racism is meant in the comment which he regards as descriptive. Another case was brought up with the racial taunts which a minoritary part of the crowd directed at black members of the English national football team during a friendly international match in Madrid, November 2004 ^[3]^[4] (the governing body of international football fined the Spanish Football Federation 100,000 Swiss francs/$87,340 USD ^[5]); and in the racist abuse of British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton during pre-season testing in Catalonia, February 2008, where a few Spanish spectators wearing black makeup on their faces, black wigs and black clothing to symbolize black arms and legs, wore white T-shirts on which were written the words, "HAMILTON'S FAMILLY" (sic) and shouted racial abuse and obscenities. ^[6]^[7]

Whether the whole thing is a case of newspaper/tabloid sports anti-Spanish POV should be eventually determined. But it is self-evident that none of these so-called incidents are related to the Spanish national basketball team

Stephreef (talk) 18:47, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is the controversy regarding the 2008 Olympics something worth noting among all others sport results? As it is quoted "Media Controversy", while in China it supposed no big deal [1]. Does this have to be such a major point in the Team's record?--Maku17 (talk) 10:16, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Is Spanish football racist?". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2004-12-21.
^ "Aragones fined for Henry remarks". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2005-03-01.
^ "Fifa probes Spanish racist chants". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2004-11-18.
^ "Night of shame stuns England". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2004-11-18.
^ "FIFA fine Spain over racist chants". CNN International. Retrieved 2004-12-21.
^ "Spanish authorities are warned as Lewis Hamilton suffers racist abuse". The Times. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
^ "RACISM: Taunts of Lewis Hamilton shame Spain". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2008-02-05.

Mediterranean Games medal count[edit]

Should the Mediterranean Games be counted in the list? Usually this competition is played with a National Team "B"... And therefore wouldn't really have the value of an Olympic, World or European Championship medal... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.54.14.162 (talk) 09:56, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Spain currently n1[edit]

Spain is now n1 over the US in the Fiba World Ranking, this change today 18 november 2022 Wikidoc724 (talk) 16:18, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Is Spanish football racist?". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2004-12-21.

[2] "Aragones fined for Henry remarks". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2005-03-01.

[3] "Fifa probes Spanish racist chants". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2004-11-18.

[4] "Night of shame stuns England". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2004-11-18.

[5] "FIFA fine Spain over racist chants". CNN International. Retrieved 2004-12-21.

[6] "Spanish authorities are warned as Lewis Hamilton suffers racist abuse". The Times. Retrieved 2008-02-04.

[7] "RACISM: Taunts of Lewis Hamilton shame Spain". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2008-02-05.

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