Jamaica is not sending a bobsled team to Vancouver for the Winter Games, but the Caribbean nation will be represented by one skier. Several countries will have only one participant in the Olympics, because there are no winter sports to speak of in these tropical lands. Yet sometimes the work of one person keeps the Olympic dream alive. Read about eight skiers who are their entire team in this article I wrote for mental_floss.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Olympics 2010: Skiing Solo for a Snowless Nation
Jamaica is not sending a bobsled team to Vancouver for the Winter Games, but the Caribbean nation will be represented by one skier. Several countries will have only one participant in the Olympics, because there are no winter sports to speak of in these tropical lands. Yet sometimes the work of one person keeps the Olympic dream alive. Read about eight skiers who are their entire team in this article I wrote for mental_floss.
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