HBO's Gumbel: lack of blacks makes Olympics "look like GOP convention"

Bryant Gumbel made some jaw-dropping comments on the February 7 episode of his HBO show Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, saying in his closing remarks:

"Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t care about them and won’t watch them ... try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention."

The Free Republic is one of the few outlets that picked up on this immediately, with one poster contrasting this supposed non-story to the media circus which followed the Rush Limbaugh-Donovan McNabb affair in 2003.