Ghanaian Maame Biney: first black women to compete on an olympic speed skating team
Seventeen-year-old Maame Biney made history by becoming the first African American woman to qualify for the U.S. Olympic speedskating team in the 2018 Winter Games. Born in Accra, Ghana, on January 28, 2000, Biney moved to the USA at the age of 5, and discovered her passion for the ice in Reston, Virginia. She started skating lessons at…
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