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Props to Cheltzie's dad!!!
From The Daily Telegraph
AN EXCUSE to beat the heat 11 years ago has frozen over into a Winter Olympic wonderland for Aussie figure skater Cheltzie Lee, who yesterday earned a last-minute ticket to Vancouver.
The Campbelltown 16-year-old's inclusion was confirmed after Israel declined to send its qualified skater, Tamar Katz.
After missing out on automatic qualification, Lee was prepared to wait until the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, but was last night trying to decide which parent will accompany her to Vancouver.
It was her Chinese-born father who introduced Lee to skating, taking her to Canterbury Ice Rink as a five-year-old on a typically sweltering summer day. "We were looking for something to do to get out of the heat, so Dad took me ice skating," Lee recalled.
"I loved it straight away and didn't need to hold the rail.
"It just felt natural."
Lee, whose African-American mother was raised in Louisiana, contested the Youth Olympics in 2007, finishing a creditable 15th in her first open-age event in Vancouver last year.
She overcame serious back problems suffered in an 18-car pile-up in Colorado - her US training base - in 2007 to continue in the sport after a long stint in a fibreglass back brace.
"I had two broken bones in my back and I had to wear the brace 24 hours a day for two months," Lee said. "I feel OK now, but I still need to manage it."
Her coach Kylie Fennell said a Michael Buble instrumental, Feeling Good, would accompany Lee's short routine, in which she needs a top-24 finish out of 30 girls to continue. If she progresses, Lee's long routine will be performed to the soundtrack of hit film Elizabeth: The Golden Age.