Nepal Ski Association organized a press conference here on Wednesday and informed that Lama has qualified to the Winter YOG after securing minimum FIS score in the FIS (Federation International Ski) Race held at Beidahu Ski Area in Changchun City, China in the first week of December.[break]
Lama, 17-year old boy from Kakani, will participate in slalom and giant slalom events in the Winter YOG.
Lama, seventh grader at Bishnumati Higher Secondary School, had participated in two international tournaments and attended training sessions in India and Korea last year.
In China, he had scored 994.69 points in slalom and 716.92 points in giant slalom.
Lama expressed his delight over representing the country in the prestigious event. “I´m happy. I´ll try my best and I´ll try to pursue career in this game,” said Lama.
“Lama is a product of NSA training program,” said Shrestha. “Though we don´t have ski resort in our country NSA has been organizing foreign trainings,” said Jeewan Ram Shrestha, the president of the NSA.
Shrestha said that NSA is taking initiation in constructing ski resort in the country to produce more players like Lama.
“We are taking initiation to construct ski resort in Kalinchowk, Dolakha in long term,” said Lama. “We´ll try to organize a National Ski Championship in 2012 in Kalinchowk, if we get suitable environment and abundant snow there,” he added.
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