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SPOR 085T Ones to watch...
MADI
ROWLANDS FREESTYLE
SKIER
www.madirowlands.com
Madi, from Walderslade, was a double Youth Olympic Games medallist in Lillehammer two years ago where she took gold in the ski halfpipe and bronze in ski slopestyle.
MILLIE KNIGHT
BRITISH
PARASNOWSPORT SKIER & WINTER PARALYMPIAN
www.millieknight.co.uk
Millie, 19, from Canterbury, is Britain’s youngest ever Winter Paralympian, having been the fl ag bearer for Paralympics GB at Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 when she was aged just 15. Following the loss of 92% of her sight by age six, Millie developed a passion for skiing from a young age and now competes on the world stage with her guide, Bret Wild. She is the current Para Alpine
Downhill World Champion, after winning gold at the World Championships last year – which led her to being shortlisted for BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year. She will be representing ParalympicsGB at her second Winter Paralympic Games in South Korea next month.
Millie says: “Skiing is an obsession and to have the opportunity to represent your country in the sport you love is truly special. Being selected to compete for Great Britain at the Winter Paralympics again is a tremendous honour.”
At the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Games this month, the 17-year-old is hoping to compete in both slopestyle and halfpipe events (as INDEX went to press Madi was awaiting selection news). She would also be the youngest member of the Park and Pipe team and the only participant competing in two events.
Madi started skiing with her family in Les Deux Alpes from as young as she could walk. Aged eight, she followed older brother Mike into a ski park and
has loved the challenge ever since. “My coach sometimes gets annoyed with me because I never get nervous but because this would be my fi rst Olympics I don’t think I will have any pressure on me,” says Madi, adding: “I think just getting there would be brilliant.”
Mike, 20, also from Walderslade, has been skiing since the age of two and took up freestyling seven years later. He is a member of the Team GB Freestyle Squad and competes in the Olympic freestyle discipline of slopestyle skiing – essentially throwing oneself down a mountain course consisting of a series of huge snow ramps and rails while performing complex, mid- air tricks – and doing it with style. “This is a progressive sport that is exciting to watch,” says Mike. “I want to promote and develop it by helping it get greater exposure in the mainstream media and thereby reaching more people.” A member of the Great Britain squad for nine months, Mike has just missed on qualifying for Pyeongchang by the narrowest of margins and now has his sights set on Beijing in 2022. “I remain thrilled at the prospect of
representing my country, competing at the highest level in the sport I love and with team-mates I’ve grown up with,” he says.
ROWLANDS FREESTYLE SKIER
MIKE
www.mike-rowlands.com
© Jason Dodd Photography
© Youth Information Service / IOC
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