Benjamin Alexander persevered to become the first Jamaican to qualify for alpine skiing at a Winter Olympics despite limited financing, the lack of a full-time coach and the inability to train consistently due to COVID-19.
"I just had to make do with what I had. I think getting to the Olympics and the struggle of getting to the Olympics is about succeeding in the face of adversity. And I have a lot of that," Alexander said from Zurich on Sunday.
"I spoke to Dudley Stokes, the pilot of the 1988 bobsleigh team. This would have been back in October of last year and I was frustrated that I had been seeking the advice and beg, borrowing and stealing little titbits of information from multiple different coaches, six of them in one week.