Viano finished 35th in the men’s giant slalom at the International Ski Federation Alpine Ski World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo last year and is the first Caribbean Olympic skier, a fairytale conclusion to a story that started in 2010.

Shortly after an earthquake flattened much of Port-au-Prince and killed more than 200,000 people, Frenchman Thierry Montillet, a cousin of 2002 downhill Olympic champion Carole Montillet, decided to create the Haitian Skiing Federation.

The 19-year-old Viano is a beneficiary of that initiative.

"It is a dream for me to be here and represent Haiti in a Winter Olympics for the first time." he said. 

"I hope this will show our country is about more than earthquakes and other disasters."

Another nominee for an award sponsored by a company that is member of the The Olympic Programme is Canada's Max Parrot, diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma just eight months after winning the Olympic silver medal in the slopestyle at Pyeongchang 2018.

He capped an amazing recovery by winning the gold medal here. 

"To be back out here, at the Olympics, on a podium again but with a gold medal, it feels amazing," Parrot said. 

Other examples of the "most emblematic moments" will be added to the list as Olympic viewers and fans are being invited to vote online for their favourite moment of the Games.

The winning Olympians and Paralympians receive $50,000 to donate to the charities of their choice.

"The most memorable Olympic moments don’t always involve medals," the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said. 

"Sometimes it’s an inspiring display of courage or an incredible act of kindness that’s the real winner."

Eight moments and four Olympic athletes will be nominated for the  final vote in the Olympic competition and six memorable moments and three Paralympian athletes are to be including in a poll which opens next month during the Paralympic Games.

At the re-arranged Olympic Games in Tokyo last year,Brazilian skateboarder Rayssa Leal was recognised for "lifting her rivals spirits with spontaneous acts of friendship."

New Zealand's Robinson, winner of the women’s javelin F46 event at the Paralympics in the Japanese capital, was recognised by fan vote after going out of her way to thank match officials following her victory.

 As a Paralympian, I have loved seeing the addition of The Visa Award to the Games," International Paralympic Committee Athletes' chairperson Jissse Vitske said.

"It was especially pleasing to see so many sports fans from across the world engage and celebrate the very best of sport with the online voting.”Vitske added.

"I am sure that once again in Beijing we will see many athlete moments that inspire us all"

The award reflects the Olympic creed which insists, "The important thing in the Olympic Games is not so much to win but to take part, just as the important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle,"

This was formulated by then IOC President Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1908 after hearing a sermon by an American churchman at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.