SAPPORO: A fanciful idea that started out as a joke among young members of one of Malaysia’s most prominent families has snowballed into a fully fledged ski team and dreams of Olympic success. Despite being a tropical, snowless country, Malaysia has created its own alpine ski team -- albeit with only two members -- which is currently competing at the 8th Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan. My siblings and I all skied together and the running joke was always that we were the Malaysian ski team because we’re the only Malaysians people see skiing,” he said. Olympic dreams”We go back to Malaysia for three months every year and when we were there we contacted the Malaysian minister of sport,” Webb’s father Steve explained. ”It’s pretty neat that a small country like Malaysia can compete against these bigger countries and this has been a great experience,” Webb said.

Source: The Star February 27, 2017 04:02 UTC