HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe has seen a sprinkling of snow
only once, and it wasn't even in Luke Steyn's lifetime.
Doesn't matter one bit.
The 20-year-old Steyn will still be the southern African country's first
Winter Olympics athlete when he races in the slalom and giant slalom
at the 2014 Games in Sochi - the final stage of a journey from his sweltering, snowless country of birth to the University of Colorado and
beyond.
"He might not get a gold, but there's plenty of time," Kevin Atkinson,
the head of the Zimbabwe Snow Sports Association, told The
Associated Press. "It's great experience and a fantastic achievement to
represent our country at the Winter Games."
Alongside Steyn's personal story, it's also remarkable that Zimbabwe
has a snow sports organization. Snow has fallen in the country once,
records indicate, more than 50 years ago when a freak light dusting
settled in a central region in 1960.
Title : Zimbabwe sends first Athlete to Winter Olympics
Description : HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe has seen a sprinkling of snow
only once, and it wasn't even in Luke Steyn's lifetime.
Doesn...
