The first Black British athlete, as far as I know, was Dr.Geoffrey Dove, a sprinter who unfortunately failed to qualify for the 1948 British Olympic team. Born to a father from Sierra Leone, and an English mother, he was highly educated, witty, and talented in several areas: medicine and engineering among them. He was unremitting in confronting racism, even to the extent of applying, having seen an ad in the Times, for a post of Mining Engineer in a South African mine at the height of aparthied. In a violent act, the other white candidate pushed him down a mineshaft, crippling him and effectively ending his athletic career. He returned to take up medicine and treating sports injuries. As a G.P. he was influential, indeed pioneering in the use of computers in medicine and became the constant friend and G.P. of the writer Laurie Lee. (author)Dom Ramos. 86.162.27.75 (talk) 21:11, 9 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
