From first snow to the Winter OlympicsSourced
He first saw snow as a student.
Six years later, he skied for Fiji.
Rusiate Rogoyawa moved from Fiji to Norway to study electrical engineering in 1982 and saw snow for the first time. He took up skiing there and represented Fiji at the 1988 Calgary Games, becoming the country's first Winter Olympian.
His first encounter with snow
led to a national first.
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