Alexander Heath

Alexander Heath (born 21 September 1978) is a South African Olympic athlete. In the 2006 Winter Olympics, he became the first African to participate in all five Alpine events. He resides in Cape Town.

He said about Bode Miller, "I used to race against Bode, until he made the U.S. team. I went to ski academy in New Hampshire ... I was close behind him in junior champs on a couple of occasions but I never beat him."

Participation

gollark: Also, many modern discoveries are basically impossible without stuff like "laboratories" and "full-time scientists" and supply chains providing the stuff they need.
gollark: As you go over that you probably have to keep adopting more and more norms and then guidelines and then rules and then laws to keep stuff coordinated.
gollark: Consider a silicon fab, which is used to make computer chips we need. That requires billions of $ in capital and thousands of people and probably millions more in supply chains.
gollark: Also, what do you mean "so what"? Technological progress directly affects standards of living.
gollark: ... that makes no sense that wouldn't even work.


Olympic Games
Preceded by
Hezekiel Sepeng
Flagbearer for  South Africa
Salt Lake City 2002
Succeeded by
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
Preceded by
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
Flagbearer for  South Africa
Turin 2006
Succeeded by
Natalie du Toit
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