Hispanic Athletes Are 4% of Olympians

Associated Press reports "Hispanic growth not reflected on US Olympic squad"

an Associated Press review found only about two-dozen Hispanic athletes on the nearly 600-member U.S. team - roughly 4 percent. By contrast, African-Americans, who make up 13.5 percent of the population, hold more than 120 spots on the team. More than half the 126 U.S. track-and-field athletes are black; only two - distance runners Leonel Manzano and Jorge Torres - are Hispanic.

Meanwhile, Telemundo is raking in millions of viewers during the Olympics, reports MediaWeek:

NBC-owned Hispanic broadcast network Telemundo, over the first 10 days of Summer Olympics coverage from Beijing, has drawn a total of 12 million unique persons, already surpassing the audience for the entire run of coverage for the 2004 Summer Olympic games on Telemundo, by 12 percent.

AOL has a Spanish-language blog, Fanáticos, devoted to the Olympics with coverage of the Hispanic American athletes.