Black Excellence: Richardson Viano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Viano
Richardson Viano (born 16 August 2002) is a French-Haitian alpine skier, competing in giant slalom and slalom.
Viano was born on 16 August 2002 in Croix-des-Missions [fr] in Tabarre, Ouest, Haiti.[1][2][3][4] He spent 18 months of his life in a Haitian orphanage. In December 2005, at three years of age he was adopted by an Italian couple living at Briançon in France.[5][3] He was adopted alongside two girls from the same orphanage.[5]
When his new adoptive parents, Andrea Viano and Silvia Grosso-Viano, drove Viano to his new home in the French Alps he was scared by the unfamiliar surroundings but intrigued by the snow, which he called “magic powder”.[5][6] His adoptive father was a ski instructor and Viano became interested in skiing.[5]