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...from Cameroon is his nation's first-ever Winter Games representative. He hits the trails in Salt Lake with a mission in mind: to draw attention to the need for AIDS education in his homeland. He spoke with TIME's Jeff Chu last week from his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Excerpts...
TIME: How has your training gone? Menyoli: It's just terrible. I'm not happy with the way that we have no snow in Wisconsin. Yesterday, it was 55 [degrees Fahrenheit]. Man. Last year, we had so much snow. This is the wrong year to go to Winter Olympics! Maybe I should have done the Tour de France. Just so you know, almost 98% of my training has been on dry land. So I have trained only on roller skis, a piece of metal with two wheels at the end. The last 2% was when I was racing. That...
...desire to do something seized Menyoli in 2000, when he traveled back to Cameroon from Wisconsin, where he has been studying architecture and working since 1994. Some aid workers had gone into Cameroon to teach sex education and AIDS prevention. But most locals wouldn't listen to the foreigners. Many said that HIV was a lie or a conspiracy. Yet some of Menyoli's friends had died and "I suspect AIDS was the case," he says. "But people said, 'No, it was witchcraft or voodoo...
Then last spring, he had an idea: he would ski in the Olympics. He had first seen cross-country on television, during Calgary in 1988, and tried the sport after moving to Wisconsin. (He also tried downhill but says, "Why would you want to go through that? I could slam into a tree and just die!") Though he wasn't much good, he thought he could do well enough to cause a stir. Then he could attempt a noble bait-and-switch, getting Cameroon's television or radio stations to give him air time to tell about his Olympic experiences...
...while the win gave them instant credibility, it has also prevented them from sneaking up on any ECAC opponents the rest of the way. Even though Brown has one league win since a 5-1 drubbing of Vermont on Nov. 10, the Bears’ upset win over Wisconsin in the Badgers’ own holiday tournament showed that Coach Roger Grillo’s team still packs punch. GRADE...