The lone member of Kenya's Olympic team is a 19-year-old skier who used crowdfunding to help her train

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• Sabrina Wanjiku Simader will be the lone Kenyan at the Winter Olympics.
• Simader qualified for alpine skiing at the 2017 World Championships, but needed some help to get there.
• Simader launched a crowdfunding campaign to cover travel, equipment, and training costs and appeared to meet her goal.

When the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang open on Thursday, Sabrina Wanjiku Simader will be the lone athlete representing Kenya.

Simader is a 19-year-old alpine skier whose path to the Olympics was improbable, from picking up the sport to having the money to train.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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