FILE PHOTO: Taiwanese Winter Olympic luge athlete Lien Te-an practices on his wheeled luge on mountain road in Yilan, Taiwan September 27, 2017. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
PYEONGCHANG (Reuters) - Stories of sacrifice abound among Olympians but Taiwanese luger Lien Te-an has quite literally taken the hard road to get to the Winter Games in Pyeongchang.
With little snow in his steamy homeland and no proper luge tracks to speak of, Lien speeds down mountain highways in the eastern county of Yilan on a wheeled sled when not training in the ice abroad.
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