Blacks have largely dominated the world of sports in almost every compartment over the ages. The long list of black sporting legends includes Jesse Owens, the four-time gold medalist track and field champion of the mid-1930s; Muhammad Ali, Pele, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Usain Bolt, Serena Williams and so many others in innumerable specialties except swimming where, for a long time, two-time Olympic swimmer and gold-medalist Cullen Jones of the United States was the sole black star. But swimming, too, is now becoming a black thing.

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