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Timor-Leste at the 2014 Winter Olympics

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Template:Infobox Olympics Timor-Leste Timor-Leste is competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia from 7th to 23rd February 2014. The country is making its debut at the Winter Olympics.[1][2]

Competitors

Sport Men Women Total
Alpine skiing 1 0 1
Total 1 0 1

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics

According to the final quota allocation released on January 20, 2014, Timor-Leste has one athlete in qualification position.[3] Goutt Goncalves is the son of a French father and his mother is from East Timor, allowing him to compete for the country.[4][5] On December 29 in a race in Serbia Goutt Goncalves managed to lower his point total to below 140 and officially qualify for the games.[1] By qualifying for the event, he also became the first athlete from his country (at any Olympiad) who has not received a wildcard to compete, but has qualified by meeting the qualification standard.[2] Goutt Goncalves spent $75,000 to allow him to qualify and compete at the Games.[6]

Athlete Event Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Yohan Goutt Goncalves Men's slalom

References

  1. ^ a b Trouillard, Stéphanie (5 January 2014). "The skier taking East Timor to the Winter Olympics". France 24. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  2. ^ a b Jones, Ruby (7 January 2014). "Even cooler runnings as skier from tropical East Timor qualifies for Winter Olympics". ABC Online. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Summary of Quota allocation as per 20.1.2014" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com. FIS. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
  4. ^ Passa, Dennis (29 November 2013). "One man's journey from tropical East Timor to the Winter Olympics". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  5. ^ Waters, Luke (26 August 2013). "East Timor skier eyes winter Olympics". Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  6. ^ Fendrich, Howard (18 February 2014). "East Timor's 1st Winter Olympian gets set to ski". Washington Post. Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Retrieved 18 February 2014. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help)
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