Slovakia Ski Team?

[billski]

I was skiing at Burke Mountain, Vermont yesterday 3/27. About 4 chairs ahead of me was a fellow with a jacket emblazoned with "Slovakia Ski Team" on the back. He was skiing alone and gone by the time I got off the lift on top. I never saw him the remainder of the day. No one I asked knew anything about the fellow.

To explain my interest, my ancestors came from Slovakia, I've traveled there and I have quite a few friends living there. It's a very small country and it is rare to see someone from Slovakia, let alone a skier!

It seemed a little suspicious since the jacket was in English. Can anyone add to this?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Patrick]

It's a very small country and it is rare to see someone from Slovakia, let alone a skier!

It seemed a little suspicious since the jacket was in English. Can anyone add to this?

Well my ski ex-coach in university was from Tcheslovakia (not sure if he was from Tcheque or Slovak) and he was an ex-member of the National Team (don't think it was the A team). He is a the ski wear business now and I believe that the jacket, suits were made by his company in the last Olympics. http://www.jiri-rr.com/products/racing/cs61gs.shtml

A Burke connection? Weird, but we also had a training camp at Burke in 1989(?). He was the coach at that time.

As for jacket and stuff, English is often used on the jacket of smaller country.