Sri Lanka girl dreams of becoming Olympic ski jumper

Sri Lanka girl dreams of becoming Olympic ski jumper

TOKYO, Japan - Oshadi Thilakarathna, an 11 year-old Sri Lankan girl, has a dream of competing in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games as a ski jumper after seeing Noriaki Sakai's performances at the Sochi Winter Olympics, and Japanese supporters have begun collecting donations via cloud funding to help her. Sri Lanka has never participated in winter Olympics.

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