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Tesfamarian, Martinez join Winter Games
By June Navarro
Philippine Daily Inquirer
10:49 pm | Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Alpine Skier Abel Tesfamarian and figure skater Michael Christian
Martinez will carry the national colors in the 1st Winter Youth
Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria, on Jan. 13 to 22.
Tesfamarian, 16, who hails from the State of Eritrea in Africa and has
Filipino blood, is set to compete in three of the nine events—slalom,
giant slalom and super G—in alpine skiing.
The 14-year-old Martinez will likewise shoot for gold medals in three
events in boys’ figure stakin—standard, short and long program.
Based in Switzerland, Tesfamarian wound up 65th out of 81 participants
in the FIS (International Ski Federation) World Junior Championships
held in Crans Montana, Switzerland, in January last year.
Martinez, one of the country’s top figure skaters, made news in 2009
after capturing the figure skating gold medal in the novice boys’
category of the Trnava Ice Cup in Slovakia.
Martinez is coming off a five-month training camp headed by a Russian
coach based in Los Angeles, California.
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