However, her dream to become an Olympian will come true in Pyeongchang, a feat largely inspired by the bobsled team. After initially trying to join the bobsledders , she took up skeleton and qualified even though her first race ever was in November Born in Singapore, Cheyenne Goh moved to Canada at the age of four, where she picked up ice skating.
She then began playing ice hockey. After watching the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, her father suggested Goh try speed skating, which she decided to pursue further in Goh secured her qualification in November in Shanghai, after which she was ranked 36th in the world.
She trains six times a week, six hours per day, which includes a two-hour ice session that starts at 5 am , and off-the-rink training for another four hours.
Mall rink training might lead another Southeast Asian nation to an Olympic debut next time around—Cambodia is hoping to skate its way to the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Correction, Feb. An earlier version of this post said the latter two contingents were in addition to the By providing your email, you agree to the Quartz Privacy Policy.
With 86 participants in 16 sports in Tokyo , Serbia will have the biggest Olympic team in the region. Tennis world champion Novak Djokovic has also confirmed he will play in Tokyo.
When it comes to individual sports, beside tennis, Serbia has good track records in long jumping, sport shooting, swimming and taekwondo. Discus champion Sandra Perkovic and shooter Josip Glasnovic, both previous gold medallists, will carry the Croatian flag at the opening ceremony. Photo: Kosovo Olympic Committee. Kosovo will have its eyes focused on judo, a sport in which its athletes have been collecting one medal after another in international competitions. Rio was also the first Olympics in which Kosovo athletes competed under their own flag.
Kosovo was accepted as a member of the International Olympic Committee only in Montenegro President Milo Djukanovic handing over the flag to the Olympic team. Photo: Montenegro Olympic Committee. Since it regained its independence in , Montenegro has competed at the Olympics in London and Beijing. Handball team member Majda Mehmedovic said her team will do its best in Tokyo. President Djukanovic said that all citizens will be supporting the team and dreaming of medals, while Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic said the team had already achieved the dream of every athlete in the country.
Photo: North Macedonia Olympic Committee. The public expects most from Dejan Georgievski who will compete in taekwondo, as well as from the free-style wrestler Mogamedgadzi Nurov. North Macedonia has been competing at the Olympics since A small country with just over 2 million people, it had its biggest Olympic team of 11 athletes at the Atlanta Summer Olympics. Initially, it seemed like an impossible dream. The team started training in October by pushing a wooden cart in a sports center.
Also making history is Simidele Adeagbo, who represents the country in skeleton. She is also a former track and field athlete and only started training for the winter sport in recent years. The island nation in Southeast Asia will be represented by year-old Cheyenne Goh, who was born in Singapore but moved to Canada at the age of four, where she learned to ice skate. The sport is gaining pace in Singapore. Some 10 hopefuls in the national team train twice a week in the country's only Olympic-sized rink.
The coach for the national team is four-time Olympics gold medalist, Chun Lee-kyung, a South Korean who is based in Singapore. Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that figure skater Julian Yee now trains primarily in Canada. Skip Navigation. Key Points. Profit from additional features by authenticating your Admin account.
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