Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong (born 19 December 1974), nicknamed "The Snow Leopard", is a Ghanaian skier and is the first person from Ghana to take part in the Winter Olympics, which he did at the 2010 Winter Olympics Vancouver, British Columbia. taking part in the slalom. He finished 53rd out of 102 participants, of whom 54 finished. Kwame Nkrumah was born on 19 December 1974. At the Ski Show in 2004 Kwame and his coach met Fergie Miller, the Director of Adventure Training specialists [Base Camp Group]. He had approached them, thoroughly intrigued by their Ghana Ski Team Jackets. After
Chinese Taipei at the 2010 Winter Olympics Chinese Taipei at the 2010 Winter Olympics Chinese Taipei () sent a delegation to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 12–28 February 2010. Although the nation is known as Taiwan or the Republic of China, the International Olympic Committee mandates that the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee flag and name is used, and not the flag of Taiwan, as per the Nagoya Resolution, which Chinese Taipei accepted in 1981. This was Chinese Taipei's eighth time participating in the Winter Olympic Games. The Chinese Taipei delegation consisted of a single athlete, luger Ma Chih-hung. He finished