Sport is supposed to be a safe outlet for the instinctual competitive energies that there is no better use for in times of peace and plenty, and it is useful for maintaining fitness that is always good, but especially useful when the peace and plenty inevitably diminishes.

Celebrating a culture's embodiment of these important characteristics is by no means racist, and does not inherently reduce that culture to nothing more than those characteristics.

The idea that they are nothing but helpless victims whose culture the rest of us shouldn't celebrate is the racist idea that the left perpetrates, seeking to transform those people into precisely such victims. Such attitudes cause society to inch closer to precisely the kind of conflict in which those characteristics would be useful, so it suits the left just fine to suppress instinctual competitive energies so they will be better positioned to take control of the suppressed population when such conflict erupts.

Only if you're a brainwashed woke.