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 Eddie the Eagle 
 Not familiar with him? Care to tell me more? 
 Some information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Eagle

There's also a movie on it, but it's on the story on the brit Michael David Edwards that wanted to be an Olympian but didn't know how and he picked Ski Jumping without having any training but after training he managed to reach the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada