Benjamin Alexander is Jamaica's first Olympic alpine skier (高山滑雪运动员), but he didn't learn skiing from childhood. The 38-year-old only discovered (he) love of the sport at 32. "I never skied before at that time, "Alexander told CNN." They (fly) us up in the helicopters at the top of the mountain to meet the skiers. . . "
For more than two (year), Benjamin Alexander had pursued(追求) a dream of becoming the first person (present)Jamaica at the Winter Olympics. For him, taking part in the Olympics is something he never thought about as a kid. He grew up in England and began working at bar when he was 17. However, he (be) tired of the boring work and stopped doing the job. After (study) engineering at University College Lon-don, he moved to Hong Kong. Then Alexander booked a month-long trip to ski, where he met a professional ski racer, gave advice on Alexander's technique(技术) and said that he was (total) fearless.
The racer said to Alexander, "If you're afraid, you'll never get any work done, even all the technique in the world. But if you're fearless, then we can teach you technique and I think there's a chance. "
