![]() Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn was born in Singapore in 1978 to a Thai father and a Chinese mother, and it serves as a warning to all pushy parents that, at various stages in her life, she has been estranged from both of them.Īccording to Vanessa-Mae’s own account, it was her mother, Pamela Soei Luang Tan, a lawyer and something of a frustrated concert pianist, who was the driving force behind the development of her talent. Not that the one-time child violin prodigy Vanessa-Mae will be attempting both feats simultaneously when she adds another string to her bow and competes for Thailand in the women’s giant slalom at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Tuesday.īut even if the 35-year-old skier fails to steal a place on the podium – and, up against serious athletes from Austria, Switzerland and the US, she almost certainly will – few could doubt that she deserves a lifetime medal for overachievement. It isn’t the first time that the apparently disparate demands of downhill skiing and expert mastery of a stringed classical instrument have been tackled by one person with such flair.Īfter all, who can forget the scene in the 1987 film The Living Daylights, when Timothy Dalton and the Bond girl Maryam d’Abo slalomed to safety down a snowy mountainside atop her cello case, with 007 wielding the instrument as a ski pole? ![]()
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