BORMIO, Italy, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Mexican Alpine skier Lasse Gaxiola will have his mother for company on his Olympic debut but she will not be cheering him from the finish area in Saturday\u2019s giant slalom in Bormio because she will be three hours away preparing her own race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Teenager Gaxiola\u2019s mum is 46-year-old Sarah Schleper, who will also be skiing under the Mexican flag in Cortina on Sunday, becoming the oldest female Alpine skier to compete at the Olympics and the first to appear at seven Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
On top of that Schleper and Gaxiola, 18, will become the first mother and son to compete at the same Winter Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s difficult because we\u2019re in two different venues,\u201d Colorado-born Schleper said. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult, but also it\u2019s good because he can experience the Olympics as an individual instead of me telling him, \u2018Oh, you\u2019ve got to trade pins, you must do this\u2019. I\u2019m always trying to give him too much advice. You can never stop being a mum and be just a teammate, so I\u2019m kind of excited that he\u2019s not right next to me all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Schleper competed at her first four Olympics as an American and in the next three she has represented Mexico after marrying her Mexican husband Federico and coming out of retirement in 2015. Her best result was 10th in the slalom in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cHe (Lasse) is the same age as I was at my first Olympics (in Nagano in 1998),\u201d Schleper, who was one of Mexico\u2019s flagbearer at the opening ceremony in Milan-Cortina, said. \u201cI\u2019m just so proud of him. He\u2019s still a little bit of a brat, but this experience is going to help him grow up and understand how important this event is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
NOT BEING WITH MUM A MIXED BLESSING<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gaxiola trained on the Bormio slopes on Tuesday along with Jamaican entrant Henri Rivers IV and Kenyan Issa Laborde as they prepare to rub shoulders with the elite racers on the Stelvio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He says not having his mum there was a mixed blessing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIn some ways, I\u2019m happy that we\u2019re apart because (having) her around does put a little extra pressure on me,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes I wish she was here with me so we could experience everything together, but it does help calm me down a little.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gaxiola says he owes his skiing talent to his mum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIt feels great to give something back to her because she\u2019s really taught me everything I know about skiing,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s been there throughout my whole skiing journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Schleper said she cried when she spotted Lasse on a screen during the opening ceremony and said it took her back to when she experienced her first Games in Nagano.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cMy first Olympics were a blur of emotion and ignorance. It\u2019s like this whole thing has been destiny,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BORMIO, Italy, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Mexican Alpine skier Lasse Gaxiola will have his mother for company on his Olympic debut but she will not be cheering him from the finish area in Saturday\u2019s giant slalom in Bormio because she will be three hours away preparing her own race. Teenager Gaxiola\u2019s mum is 46-year-old Sarah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[305035,419547,419548],"class_list":["post-2278461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-mexico","tag-olympics","tag-winter-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mexico-Mother-And-Son-To-Make-Olympic-History-At-Milan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278463,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278461\/revisions\/2278463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}