Snow Leopard skier in the spotlight
12 April 2012
Ghanaian skier Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, known as the Snow Leopard, will be cheered on by Milton Keynes in Sunday's giant slalom.
The 29-year-old became Ghana's first athlete to qualify for a Winter Games eight years after first taking to the piste while working as a receptionist at the town's indoor ski-ing centre.
Born in Glasgow to Ghanaian parents, he used rented skis to win indoor downhill races until the Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead agreed to sponsor him in 2004.