East Timor made its debut in the Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) on Saturday, February 13, with one young athlete competing in Alpine Skiing. Alexi Gonclaves Goutt, the Southeast Asian country’s lone representative to the Lillehammer games, is the first Timorese to compete in the youth event. Trained in France, Goutt is competing in 4 events – Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super-G, and Alpine Combined. Around 1,100 athletes from 71 countries will compete for medals in 7 sports events and 15 disciplines in Lillehammer, which hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics. The YOG is using some of the venues built and used in 1994.
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