Winter Olympics: Where the rich and elite meet to compete

February 10, 2006
Source: Washington Post
Original story — link verified on February 10, 2006

The winter Olympics is almost exclusively the preserve of a narrow, generally wealthy, predominantly Caucasian collection of athletes and nations. Norway has won three times as many winter medals as the nations of Asia, Latin and South America, Australia and Polynesia, the Middle East and the Caribbean Basin combined.

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