East Timor at the 2014 Winter Olympics
| Timor-Leste at the 2014 Winter Olympics | |||||||||
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| IOC code | TLS | ||||||||
| NOC | National Olympic Committee of East Timor | ||||||||
| in Sochi | |||||||||
| Competitors | 1 in 1 sport | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Yohan Goutt Goncalves (opening[1][2] and closing)[3] | ||||||||
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 Indonesia (1984–1996) Individual Olympic Athletes (2000) | |||||||||
Timor-Leste competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia from 7 to 23 February 2014. The country made its debut at the Winter Olympics.[4][5]
Competitors
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Alpine skiing
According to the final quota allocation released on January 20, 2014, Timor-Leste had one athlete in qualification position.[6] Goutt Goncalves is the son of a French father and his mother is from East Timor, allowing him to compete for the country.[7][8] 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.[4][9] 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.[5] Goutt Goncalves spent $75,000 to allow him to qualify and compete at the Games.[10]
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Yohan Goutt Goncalves | Men's slalom | 1:09.01 | 77 | 1:21.88 | 43 | 2:30.89 | 43 |
References
- ↑ Moores, Grace (30 January 2014). "Tiny Pacific nation to make Winter Olympic debut". http://www.thrivesports.com/. Retrieved 4 February 2014. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony - Flagbearers" (PDF). http://www.olympic.org/. Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "Sochi 2014 Closing Ceremony - Flagbearers" (PDF). The International Olympic Committee (IOC). February 23, 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
- 1 2 Trouillard, Stéphanie (5 January 2014). "The skier taking East Timor to the Winter Olympics". France 24. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- 1 2 Jones, Ruby (7 January 2014). "Even cooler runnings as skier from tropical East Timor qualifies for Winter Olympics". ABC Online. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ↑ "Summary of Quota allocation as per 20.1.2014" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com. FIS. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ↑ Passa, Dennis (29 November 2013). "One man's journey from tropical East Timor to the Winter Olympics". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ↑ Waters, Luke (26 August 2013). "East Timor skier eyes winter Olympics". Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ↑ Lemon, Geoff (21 February 2014). "Sochi 2014: Timor Leste's lone skier offers a breath of fresh Olympic air". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ↑ Fendrich, Howard (18 February 2014). "East Timor's 1st Winter Olympian gets set to ski". Washington Post. Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Retrieved 18 February 2014.