Introducing tropical nations that refuse to be frozen out of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

Jamaica and Nigeria have both made history by qualifying women’s bobsled teams for next month’s Winter Olympics, but they will not be the only athletes from warm-weather countries braving the sub-zero temperatures in South Korea.

Here Press Association Sport takes a look at five other unlikely nations whose flags will be proudly paraded around the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium on February 9:

Ghana

Formerly a brakeman for the Dutch bobsled team, Akwasi Frimpong switched to skeleton after missing out on the 2014 Olympics and qualified for Pyeongchang. Frimpong – who left his homeland for Holland at the age of eight – will be Ghana’s second Winter Olympian after skiier Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong in 2010.

Bermuda

Tucker Murphy will become a three-time Winter Olympian when he represents his island at cross-country skiing. Educated at Merton College, Oxford, Murphy moved back to his homeland where he works as a biologist and often trains by skiing on beaches. He finished 88th on his debut in Vancouver and improved his position by four places at Sochi 2014.

Singapore

Madagascar

Alpine skier Mialitiana Clerc will become the first female to represent the Indian Ocean island at a Winter Olympics. Clerc was born in Madagascar but adopted by a French family as a baby and learned to ski in France. The only previous Madagascar Winter Olympian, Mathieu Razanakolona, finished 39th in the men’s giant slalom in 2006.

Eritrea

Born and raised in Canada, Shannon-Ogbani Abeda – whose parents fled Eritrea’s war of independence in the 1980s – will represent the repressive African nation in the slalom and giant-slalom events in South Korea. Abeda had previously represented Eritrea at the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck in 2012.