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Michael Christian Martinez, the lone full-blooded Filipino competing in the Sochi Winter Olympics, started skating when he was only 8 years old.

He discovered the sport, so to speak, while window-shopping at an SM mall where he passed by an ice skating rink and saw some skaters there.

“I was kind of fascinated with the sport right from the start. I watched the skaters and said to myself I could do what they were doing. That’s how everything started,” recounted Martinez, now 17.

Six or seven years after he learned to skate, Martinez started to compete internationally where he did very well and even bagged medals.

We saw Martinez’s qualifying number on YouTube, which he performed to the tune of “Malaguena.”
Filipinos will have the chance to watch him do the same number on the eve of Valentine’s Day when he competes in the eliminations and aims for one of 24 finals slots.