Trinidad and Tobago at the 2002 Winter Olympics Games since, except the 1960 Summer Olympics, they did not participate in their first Winter Olympics until the 1994 Lillehammer Games, and have never won a Winter Olympics medal. Salt Lake City was thus the nation's third appearance at a Winter Olympics. The 2002 Winter Olympics were held from 8–24 February 2002; a total of 2,399 athletes took part representing 77 National Olympic Committees. The Trinidad and Tobago delegation to Salt Lake City consisted of three bobsledders, Gregory Sun, Andrew McNeilly, and Errol Aguilera. Sun was chosen as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony. Gregory Sun was 39 at
Winter Olympic Games the Austrian cross-country ski team's residence during the Games where they seized blood-doping specimens and equipment. This event followed the pre-Olympics suspension of 12 cross-country skiers who tested positive for unusually high levels of haemoglobin, which is evidence of blood doping. The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi's Russian Doping Scandal has resulted in the International Olympic Committee to begin disciplinary proceedings against 28 (later increased to 46) Russian athletes who competed at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, acting on evidence that their urine samples were tampered with. The Winter Olympics have been an ideological front in the Cold