How can someone from a tropical country with no snow compete in the Winter Olympics? It seemed impossible but, 17-year old Michael Christian Martinez became the Philippines’ only bet in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the country’s first Winter Olympian in two decades.
Olympic dreams start all over the world each and every day, Nicholas McCarvel of NBCOlympics.com writes, about the Philippines’ lone representative in this year’s Winter Olympics at Sochi. For Olympian figure skater Michael Ma…