In many Asian countries, ice skaters are treated as rock stars. When you come from Turkey, it's a challenge to find any sponsors, let alone find adequate coaches and training time. Those are some of the difficulties that 24 year old Tugba Karademir has had to overcome as she became the first winter skating Olympian for Turkey.
To keep her dream alive, her and her parents made the difficult choice to move to Canada to find better training and more ice time. When the Canadians asked Tugba to represent them, she declined preferring to represent her native Turkey:
Tubga finished in 21st place out of 24 at the 2006 Torino Olympic Winter Games and hopes to greatly improve on that result in Vancouver. She has already qualified so we'll see her competing in February. You can follow her blog and also become a fan on facebook to support her efforts and dreams.
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