Olympics-Freestyle-Crook puts British Virgin Islands back on Winter Games map (Reuters) j.mp/M9SaR6 By Philip O’Connor ROSA KHUTOR, Russia, Feb 18 (Reuters) – To Adam Crook it made no difference that he finished second-last men’s ski halfpipe qualifiers on Tuesday, it was enough that he had become the first athlete from the British Virgin Islands to compete at a Winter Olympics for 30 years. Speedskater Errol Spence, who raced in Sarajevo in 1984, is the only other athlete the Caribbean nation has sent to a Winter Games, and it almost did not have one in Sochi either. “When we first went to the British Virgin Islands Olympic Committee, they thought I was talking about water skiing,” the 21-year-old told reporters. Once they figured out what it was that I actually did.” Crook was born in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands before moving to his mother’s native Wisconsin in the United States when he was eight. Via: Yahoo Sports February 18, 2014 at 07:36PM j.mp/M9SaR6 Sport10
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