[jyl]

You’ve never heard of Brignone because you don’t follow women’s WC skiing?

As for the rest, if an athlete can go to the Olympics with another country to which they have enough connection, then they might choose to do so. Sometimes it pays off. Brazil won its first downhill skiing gold medal via a skiier who was born in Norway to a Brazilian mother and skier for Norway before leaving after a dispute with the team, after a brief retirement he started skiing for Brazil and here he is. I knew a young man who was born and lives in the US, went to high school with my kids, who went to the Olympics skiing for South Korea, where his family came from. I think it’s all kind of fun.