![]() ![]() Academic Prawat Nagvajara represented Thailand in cross-country skiing at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics. Vanessa-Mae, whose full name is Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, would be only the second Thai to compete at a Winter Olympics if she qualified. She was born in Singapore to a Chinese mother and a Thai father but she was brought up in England when her mother remarried a Briton. The violinist is a British citizen but she also holds a Thai passport. This is something I am determined to do.” “But it has been my dream to be a ski bum since I was 14. “People are surprised when they see me skiing - a classical violinist, Oriental, who has lived in the city all her life,” Vanessa-Mae told Reuters in a telephone interview. ![]() ![]() Vanessa-Mae, 34, is in training with the aim of competing in at least five internationally recognized events to qualify for the giant slalom and possibly the slalom at the Sochi Olympics. Vanessa-Mae has put music on hold for a year and is rehearsing for a new role - skiing for Thailand at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in February 2014, she said in an interview on January 19, 2013. Violinist Vanessa Mae is seen performing on stage during a concert in Prague in this Septemfile photograph. ![]()
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