For some reason these questions are not asked when the selection process ends up favouring those with higher skin pigmentation like e.g. happens in the NBA or in long-distance running.

Should there be a call for more 'white' or 'east-asian' basketball players or long-distance runners? No, there should be not, may the best person win. The same should be true for every other field of endeavour, identity politics should be removed from the narrative and shunned for the divisive effects is has had and has on public discourse where it served and serves to create a fractal of warring factions.