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Queen of the rink: Champion ice skater’s 2022 Winter Olympics dream

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With our sunny climate, South Africa is not really associated with winter sports like skiing, luge, bobsleigh or ice skating.  The last time a South African qualified for the Winter Olympics was as far back as 1988.  It was the same year that Jamaica - also an unlikely country for winter sports - sent a bobsleigh team for the first time to winter Olympics.  But now there's a 15-year old South African hoping to represent her country at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in ice skating. Gian Quen-Isaacs qualified for her first SA Nationals as a junior 7 years ago and became the national junior champion in 2019.  The Covid-19 pandemic and resultant lockdowns kept her off the ice for a couple of months, but she is back in training.  The teenager told BizNews of her gruelling training regime that starts before sunrise every morning and what prompted her interest in ice skating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11 Dec 2020 10AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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