Roberto Carcelen will be among the skiers at the starting line and Philip Boit is hoping to join him.

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(Speech) Earlier this month, Boit arrived in Washington State to try to qualify for his fourth and,he says,final Olympics.

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I didn't know about snow." But two years later, Boit was at the Winter Olympics in Nagano,Japan.

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Boit told the BBC in 2002 the meeting had a great effect on him.

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We already know that from the 1882 painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" (incongruously, a 1908 oil portrait of their father is included here).

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One of the most unlikely nations to compete at the Winter Games has been Kenya, but there are few stories as compelling as that of former middle-distance runner Philip Boit.

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