This marked the fourth appearance by the nation at a Winter Olympics, and the first time it had not been represented at one by alpine skier Lamine Guèye.

In two out of the three initial appearances, the country was represented by a single alpine skier, Lamine Guèye, with the exception of 1992 when Alphonse Gomis also competed.

This was the first time Senegal had fielded a Winter Games team which did not feature Guèye.

Instead, alpine skier Leyti Seck was chosen as the country's sole representative,[1] who had been competing professionally since 2002.

[7][8][9] In the super-G on 18 February, Seck finished in 55th place out of the 56 skiers who completed the run with a time of 1:42.87, ahead of Erjon Tola of Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics.