Ethiopian cross-country skier Teklemariam to compete in his second Winter Olympics

Somehow Trey Parker and Matt Stone missed Robel Teklemariam in their famous South Park episode featuring Starvin' Marvin and Sally Struthers.

Well who is Robel Teklemariam? He's a 35-year-old one-man cross-country team for Ethiopia. This Winter Olympics in Vancouver will be his second. A 1993 graduate of Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Teklemariam earned a full ride scholarship to the University of New Hampshire.

He ended up in the U.S. at 9, when his mother's U.N. job landed them in New York. A nature lover, Teklemariam gravitated towards cross-country skiing in Lake Placid at the private North Country School.

His goal for the Winter Olympics is to better the 10-minute margin of the top finisher in the 15k. Beyond that? “My goal is for Ethiopia to be a mainstay in the Winter Olympics and have something established domestically for people to ski and train,” he told the Aspen Daily News.

So, we'll have a cross-country skier from Ethiopia, a giant slalom skier from the Cayman Islands, and of course, the Jamaican Team of One, ski cross powerhouse Errol Kerr.