(Reuters) - Denmark's hopes of a first-ever medal in an individual event at the Winter Olympics rest on the shoulders of Elena Rigas, an inline skater who made the transition to ice skating and has qualified for the mass start in South Korea.
The Danes do not have a strong winter sports tradition but Rigas's involvement in the Olympic Games is the culmination of a project the country has been running since 2010 that has seen three of its skaters qualify for Pyeongchang 2018.
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