Olympic Medal Hopes Rest on One Athlete for 18 Teams
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — No pressure or anything. But the whole country is rooting for you.
After all, you're their only Olympic hope.
Eighteen teams have just one athlete — 13 of them alpine skiers — competing for them at this year's Winter Games, a prestigious — but maybe slightly lonely — place to be. So, the spotlight was solely on them as they entered Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony carrying their team's flag.
The 18 one-athlete teams include:
- Azerbaijan (Patrick Brachner, alpine skiing)
- Bermuda (Tucker Murphy, cross-country skiing)
- Cyprus (Dino Lefkaritis, alpine skiing)
- Ecuador (Klaus Jungbluth Rodriguez, cross-country skiing)
- Eritrea (Shannon Abeda, alpine skiing)
- Ghana (Akwasi Frimpong, skeleton)
- Hong Kong (Arabella Carolina Yili Ng, alpine skiing)
- Kenya (Sabrina Simader, alpine skiing)
- Kosovo (Albin Tahiri, alpine skiing)
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — No pressure or anything. But the whole country is rooting for you.
After all, you're their only Olympic hope.
Eighteen teams have just one athlete — 13 of them alpine skiers — competing for them at this year's Winter Games, a prestigious — but maybe slightly lonely — place to be. So, the spotlight was solely on them as they entered Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony carrying their team's flag.
The 18 one-athlete teams include:
- Azerbaijan (Patrick Brachner, alpine skiing)
- Bermuda (Tucker Murphy, cross-country skiing)
- Cyprus (Dino Lefkaritis, alpine skiing)
- Ecuador (Klaus Jungbluth Rodriguez, cross-country skiing)
- Eritrea (Shannon Abeda, alpine skiing)
- Ghana (Akwasi Frimpong, skeleton)
- Hong Kong (Arabella Carolina Yili Ng, alpine skiing)
- Kenya (Sabrina Simader, alpine skiing)
- Kosovo (Albin Tahiri, alpine skiing)