The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 09:49, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
... that a group of Fijians put out a newspaper ad to recruit Olympic skiers for Fiji at the 2002 Olympic Games after discussing it at a New Year's Eve party? Source: "The story began at a New Year's Eve party in Fiji at the end of 1998. How nice it would be, consensus was among a group of friends, to have a Fijian ski in Salt Lake City. "So, they placed an ad in the newspaper," recalled Phil Taylor, head of the Fiji delegation." ([1])
ALT2:... that the only participant for Fiji at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Laurence Thoms, raced for the first time just two years before the Games? "My first ever race was in January 2000, and I now split my training between New Zealand and Engelberg in Switzerland." So Thoms has been skiing properly for just over two years - something of a disadvantage when compared with the vastly experienced Europeans." ([3])
Overall: ALT0 is clearly the most interesting, but ALT2 is also worth consideration. ALT1 isn't terribly interesting or unexpected. SounderBruce 01:45, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
Please add a source for the chart with his times. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 21:19, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
@Yoninah: Added ref to the table. Nomader (talk) 04:38, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
Thank you. Restoring tick per SounderBruce's review. Yoninah (talk) 09:45, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
ALT0 is clearly the most interesting, but ALT2 is also worth consideration. ALT1 isn't terribly interesting or unexpected. SounderBruce 01:45, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
