KENYAN EYES WINTER OLYMPICS: Skier Simader on fast track to 2018 Games in South Korea

Sarah Simader, mother of Kenya's Sabrina Simader cheers at the finish area after her daughter completed a women's super-G, at the Alpine Ski World Championships, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Graham Dunbar)

Kenyan skier Sabrina Simader’s ambitious path to the 2018 Olympic downhill went through St. Moritz on Tuesday.

The 18-year-old Simader was the only African starter in the women’s super-G race at the world ski championships.