European Winter Youth Olympic Festival 2017

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 2/15/2017 at 11:42 AM, hckosice said:

Gold for Luxembourg !

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Is that their first ever medal? Wikipedia records are non-existent for the earlier WEYOF's  

[uk12points 434]

  On 2/15/2017 at 12:21 PM, heywoodu said:

Is that their first ever medal? Wikipedia records are non-existent for the earlier WEYOF's  

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I'm not sure I tried to look using the EOC websites past results database but it so un-user friendly I gave up!

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 2/15/2017 at 12:23 PM, uk12points said:

I'm not sure I tried to look using the EOC websites past results database but it so un-user friendly I gave up!

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Polish Wikipedia 

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimowy_Olimpijski_Festiwal_Młodzieży_Europy_1993

 

It is indeed Luxembourg's first ever medal and immediately it's gold!

Edited February 15, 2017 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,355]

Peter Murphy (Luxembourgh's gold medal winner) and his sister Caroline (also in Erzurum) apperently have Dutch roots, awesome! I googled them and the first thing I saw was an article about the 11 and 12-year old brother/sister on a Dutch website when they were visiting their grandparents here  

[hckošice 15,127]

  On 2/15/2017 at 12:21 PM, heywoodu said:

Is that their first ever medal? Wikipedia records are non-existent for the earlier WEYOF's  

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according to this article it´s for sure their first ever gold medal at winter EYOFs, http://teamletzebuerg.lu/2017/02/communique-de-presse-foje-erzurum-2017-2/

just briefly made a look on the previous WEYOF results and no LUX never won any medal, so it´s the first ever

 

and to mention the "Bronze Age" day for Italy from the 5 todays finished events they medaled in 4 of them, always bronze.

[uk12points 434]

Fantastic Bronze medal to Team GB in the Women's Snowboard Cross!!!! Well done Ellie Soutter!

 

We haven't won a medal on snow at the EYOF since Chemmy Alcott in 1999!

[Dragon 1,899]

  On 2/15/2017 at 12:23 PM, uk12points said:

I'm not sure I tried to look using the EOC websites past results database but it so un-user friendly I gave up!

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To mess things up I have a feeling their father may be British and work for the European Union in Luxembuorg,

Not 100% sure but it looks like it.

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 2/15/2017 at 3:53 PM, Dragon said:

To mess things up I have a feeling their father may be British and work for the European Union in Luxembuorg,

Not 100% sure but it looks like it.

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The Luxembourg NOC refused to give any background information when I mailed them asking if they had another Dutch link besides their grandparents in the Netherlands....this is all getting complicated  

[dcro 10,210]

  On 2/15/2017 at 4:00 PM, heywoodu said:

 

The Luxembourg NOC refused to give any background information when I mailed them asking if they had another Dutch link besides their grandparents in the Netherlands....this is all getting complicated  

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You do realize that he is a minor, among other things?

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 2/15/2017 at 4:03 PM, dcro said:

 

You do realize that he is a minor, among other things?

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Oh wait, that might have something to do with it indeed