{"id":256772,"date":"2026-01-25T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/256772\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:06:07","slug":"philippines-alpine-skier-tallulah-proulx-makes-olympic-history-after-securing-quota-at-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/256772\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines Alpine skier Tallulah Proulx makes Olympic history after securing quota at Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proulx first tried on a pair of skis at the age three during a family trip to Tahoe in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By seven, she was competing in events, and her Olympic dream was born.<\/p>\n<p>The recent high school graduate has some experience at international events, having finished 14th at the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, in the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n<p>But Proulx\u2019s latest achievement goes well beyond sporting excellence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After initially failing to make the slalom qualifying standard by a tiny margin, she showed immense resilience, determination, and composure to secure the required time in her final qualifying race.<\/p>\n<p>She will compete alongside the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/mikaela-shiffrin\" target=\"_blank\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mikaela Shiffrin<\/a>, and Proulx is training six days a week from her U.S. base to ensure she delivers a best-ever performance in the Italian Dolomites.<\/p>\n<p>Proulx hopes to inspire more athletes from her nation to compete in winter sports, knowing that they do belong on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to go in with a positive mindset and represent the Philippines in a positive light and take away the whole experience, of course, and just enjoy it without having to put too much pressure on myself because I think I perform best when I&#8217;m, of course, happy and surrounded by such inspirational figures,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proulx first tried on a pair of skis at the age three during a family trip to Tahoe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-256772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}