With less than 30 days to go until the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, athletes in Jamaica are racing against the clock to add glory to the country at this world-renowned sporting event. Benjamin Alexander is one of them, and his goal is the yellow and bright gold medal in alpine skiing.
The Jamaican media rushed to report on the athlete, claiming that "he will win Olympic honors for his country".
Interestingly, Alexander, who has high hopes, is not a skier from a science class, and he is not even a "player", because he is not currently qualified to play for Jamaica in the Beijing Winter Olympics!!!
What is more interesting is that Alexander's previous occupation and sports are not at all related, and the two professions can be described as incompatible. So, what did he do before?
DJ, read that right, he is indeed a well-known DJ.
When he heard about this profession, Erdo first thought of nightclubs, and then associated with exaggerated movements, wild shouts, boiling crowds... but no matter how he associated, he couldn't think of skiing, let alone highly technical alpine skiing.
Alexander, however, stubbornly linked these two professions that could not be beaten by eight rods. What the hell is going on here?
Alexander, 37, is of mixed race, with an English mother and a Jamaican father. Maverick, he graduated from University College London, one of the world's top universities, majoring in electrical engineering. After graduating from university, he chose to go to Hong Kong, where he had longed for, to pursue a career in the financial industry.
The high salary failed to keep this freedom-hungry man, and after resigning he became a DJ for ten years. During this time, he has performed in more than 30 different countries and has a large number of fans.
A party at a ski resort completely changed the trajectory of Alexander's life.
Because of that party, Alexander, a DJ, fell in love with skiing. In 2016, he tried skiing for the first time, and if he didn't ski, he couldn't stop once he slid.
In the following year, he began to try to experience speed and passion in famous ski resorts including the Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort in the United States, and the more he skied, the more he liked it, and the higher the skiing technique.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, Alexander watched the ski race as a spectator. It was then that he set his next life goal – to qualify for alpine skiing at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
"For years, I've been looking for the next big challenge in my life, and it's worth my best efforts," he says. ”
The hollywood film "Light On Ice", which tells the story of four Jamaican bobsleigh athletes who overcame all odds and took the first step in the Winter Olympics, strengthened Alexander's determination to compete in the Olympics.
"You know, none of these four athletes have seen snow before. Since they can, of course I can too," he said. In Alexander's view, although the film is fictional, the sportsmanship conveyed is real.
In order to stand on the Olympic field, Alexander gave his all, and in the 18 months until August, he had 350 days of skiing.
As the so-called "kung fu pays off", this time last year, Alexander was 60 seconds slower than the qualifying speed required for the race. However, the results of a recent test showed that he was only 7 seconds behind the qualifying speed.
In other words, he is only "7 seconds" away from qualifying for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Alexander said: "There is only one factor that may prevent me from qualifying now, and that is the new crown epidemic. Other than that, nothing can stop me! ”
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