Bormio, Italy – Singaporean Faiz Basha is the first competitor to represent his country in a snow sport at the Olympic Winter Games, and his road to the frozen slopes from his tropical nation included unconventional training on inline skates.
Basha moved to Switzerland at the age of three and learned to ski from his Singaporean mother, who fell for the sport with her new proximity to the Alps.
“We were learning about things as we go along because we don’t have the culture, we don’t have the history in the sport,” he said.
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