Lamine Guèye

Lamine Guèye

Lamine Guèye (born July 18, 1960 in Dakar ) is a former Senegalese ski racer and founder, President, Treasurer and Secretary General of the Senegalese Ski Association. From 1984 to 1994 he represented Senegal at the Winter Olympics . His main occupation was a dressman in Paris and skiing in his free time.

Guèye was the first winter Olympian in his country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo . The sporting success was moderate. In the downhill he was 51st (out of 60), in the giant slalom 57th (out of 76), the slalom for which he had originally registered, he didn't start. Guèye also took part in the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville and 1994 in Lillehammer .

When the International Olympic Committee for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City did not allow him to start, Guèye increasingly placed the struggle of smaller countries for participation in the Olympic Games and World Championships in the foreground of his actions. He explained that the tightening of the qualification criteria for the games will create insurmountable hurdles for smaller sports nations. The Olympic motto being there is everything is increasingly taking a back seat.

At the Alpine World Ski Championships in Bormio in 2005 , he protested to the International Ski Federation (FIS) on behalf of several so-called exotic countries because, in his opinion, they were much worse accommodated.

In 2006 in Turin , Guèye was back at the Winter Games , but only as a companion to the skier Leyti Seck .

At the 2007 Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre , he withdrew Leyti Seck to protest against the qualifications for the men's technical competitions, which were held for the first time, and presented a counter-model to this mode, which would limit the number of participants to around 120. Günter Hujara , race director of the FIS, stuck to his model.

Web links

• Lamine Guèye in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Lamine Guèye in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )