In this episode, we speak to Regina Martinez, a medical doctor and an athlete on the Mexican Nordic Ski Team. Originally from Mexico City, she is on a mission to be the first Mexican woman to represent her country in cross country skiing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.  In February 2021, she qualified for the FIS World Ski Championships in Germany, and became the first Mexican woman in history to participate in a cross country ski race at that level. In our conversation, she talks about the challenges that come with breaking into a winter sport when you’re from a country like Mexico that doesn’t get much snow. 

Show Notes:

• Regina Martinez website: www.reginamartinez.org
• “‘You’re going to be making history’: UMN medical student breaks barriers as first Mexican woman to compete in FIS World Ski Championships: https://mndaily.com/266735/sports/youre-going-to-be-making-history-umn-medical-student-breaks-barriers-as-first-mexican-woman-to-compete-in-fis-world-ski-championships/
• Regina’s International Ski Federation bio: https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=cc&competitorid=251465
• “Latino Athletes from Minnesota Trying Out for the 2022 Winter Olympics”:https://mnlatinos.com/blog/2021/02/20/latino-athletes-from-minnesota-tryout-for-the-2022-winter-olympics/
• “A phone call, a blizzard, & the google search that started it all”: https://www.reginamartinez.org/post/one-phone-call-one-blizzard-the-google-search-that-started-it-all
• Impostor syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
• “'Funding is always an issue': The small 'exotic' nations at Beijing 2022”: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-02-15/-Funding-is-always-an-issue-Small-exotic-nations-at-Beijing-2022-17G2DSDEr1C/index.html
• World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/
• Doctors Without Borders: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
• Salomon:  https://www.salomon.com/en-us/alpine-skiing
• GoPro: https://gopro.com/en/us/

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