Lamine Guèye (skier)

Lamine Guèye ( born July 18, 1960 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese former ski racer and founder, President, Treasurer and Secretary General of the Senegalese Ski Federation. From 1984 to 1994, he was the one-man team of Senegal at the Winter Olympics. His main job was male model in Paris and operational skiing at leisure.

Guèye was the first athlete of his country, who participated in Winter Games at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. The sporting success was moderate. On the descent he was 51 ( 60 ), in the Giant Slalom 57 ( of 76 ), for slalom, for which he had originally reported that he did not present himself. Also at the Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 and 1994 Lillehammer was Guèye it with.

When he received no start approval by the International Olympic Committee for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Guèye turned increasingly to fight smaller countries to participate in the Olympics and world championships in the foreground of his actions. He explained that insurmountable hurdles are set up by the tightening of eligibility criteria for the games, for smaller sporting nations. Be the Olympic motto there is everything kick increasingly occurring in the background.

In the Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 in Bormio he put as representative of several so-called exotic countries a protest at the International Ski Federation (FIS ), because these were housed in his opinion, much worse.

Torino 2006 Guèye was then at the Winter Games again with this, but only as a companion of the skier Leyti Seck.

In the Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 in Åre, he moved Leyti Seck back to protest the inaugural qualifications for technical competitions the men's and put a counter-model to this mode before, by which the number of participants would be limited to about 120. Günter Hujara, FIS race director, but held on to his model.