Notable Winter Olympians From Tropical Nations
| Name | Nation | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Abernathy, AnneAnne Abernathy | Virgin Islands | luge |
| Bankert, JuddJudd Bankert | Guam | biathlon |
| Boccalandro, IginiaIginia Boccalandro | Venezuela | luge |
| Boit, PhilipPhilip Boit | Kenya | cross-country skiing |
| Brown, LascellesLascelles Brown | Jamaica | bobsleigh |
| Carcelen, RobertoRoberto Carcelen | Peru | cross-country skiing |
| Clark Ribeiro, IsabelIsabel Clark Ribeiro | Brazil | snowboarding |
| Denzler, CynthiaCynthia Denzler | Colombia | alpine skiing |
| Fraser, ErrollErroll Fraser | British Virgin Islands | speed skating |
| Guèye, LamineLamine Guèye | Senegal | alpine skiing |
| Hoeger, WernerWerner Hoeger | Venezuela | luge |
| Kerr, ErrolErrol Kerr | Jamaica | freestyle skiing |
| Kinch, ArturoArturo Kinch | Costa Rica | alpine skiing and cross-country skiing |
| Maleson, EricEric Maleson | Brazil | bobsleigh |
| McNeilly, AndrewAndrew McNeilly | Trinidad and Tobago | bobsleigh |
| Menyoli, IsaacIsaac Menyoli | Cameroon | cross-country skiing |
| Mizoguchi, RenatoRenato Mizoguchi | Brazil | luge |
| Nagvajara, PrawatPrawat Nagvajara | Thailand | cross-country skiing |
| Nkrumah-Acheampong, KwameKwame Nkrumah-Acheampong | Ghana | alpine skiing |
| Raschini, RicardoRicardo Raschini | Brazil | bobsleigh and luge |
| Razanakolona, MathieuMathieu Razanakolona | Madagascar | alpine skiing |
| Rogoyawa, RusiateRusiate Rogoyawa | Fiji | cross-country skiing |
| Seck, LeytiLeyti Seck | Senegal | alpine skiing |
| Teklemariam, RobelRobel Teklemariam | Ethiopia | cross-country skiing |
| Thoms, LaurenceLaurence Thoms | Fiji | alpine skiing |
| Travers, DowDow Travers | Cayman Islands | alpine skiing |
| Tucker, GeorgeGeorge Tucker | Puerto Rico | luge |
| von Hohenlohe, HubertusHubertus von Hohenlohe | Mexico | Alpine skiing |
Read more about this topic: Tropical Nations At The Winter Olympics
Famous quotes containing the words notable, winter, tropical and/or nations:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“There was never a revolution to equal it, and never a city more glorious than Petrograd, and for all that period of my life I lived another and braved the ice of winter and the summer flies in Vyborg while across my adopted country of the past, winds of the revolution blew their flame, and all of us suffered hunger while we drank at the wine of equality.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)