Lamine Guèye (skier)

Over the course of the following year, Guèye wrote the statutes of his new Federation in three different languages and presented them to Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of Senegal, who received them warmly.

[1] Guèye participated in the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo, later recalling that as the sole representative of Senegal, he was sandwiched between the teams from the United States and the Soviet Union - the two largest contingents of athletes.

Guèye watched the performance of the Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympics on television, which inspired him to return to the Games.

[3] Following changes to the qualification criteria for the 1994 Winter Olympics, Guèye was permitted to participate as Senegal's sole representative as he was ranked within the top 1500 skiers in the world.

In 2001, he published the letter he had sent to Jacques Rogge, stating "Up until the 1992 Olympic Games, included, every country could send four athletes per event to alpine skiing, and we were able to believe that we were equal.