The country's long absence from international competition means that its athletes, white or black, have not honed their skills against the best in the world.

If a white athlete is not focused, someone will sit him down.

If white American athletes think blacks are superior, the rest of the world will laugh at us.

The rate for white athletes was 55 percent for both the 1985 group and the three-year average.

The report said white male athletes and students in general in the study graduated at the same rate, 57 percent.

Many athletes, black and white, stayed away from the event.

These white athletes under such circumstances may start off at a psychological disadvantage.

"I saw black and white athletes living as one family," she said.

And why were white athletes so afraid of competing on an equal basis with blacks?

Lacrosse, a sport that, up until then, had been dominated by white athletes.