Mr Alexander, who once worked in Hong Kong for an international financial company, told Olympics.com that he had spent “30-40 hours” plotting the races he needed to take part in and the times he needed to achieve to qualify for Beijing.

He was “trying to look for patterns, trying to look for races that might be a little bit more favourable”, he said, which included looking at how many people were competing in each race and targeting those with fewer competitors.

“I’ve totally nerded out on that database and I have my own version of it, my own spreadsheet, which has all of the links to all of the information about the race and the historical races, so at any moment, if I decide to change my plan, I can just go into my own database and figure it out,” he said. 

Jamaica’s first Olympic skier only sampled the sport for the first time in 2016, spending most of that time falling over. Within two years, however, he had settled on the idea of hanging up his DJ’s headset and becoming a professional skier. 

The East Midlands native knew he never had any hope of competing for Team GB with its well-funded athletes, but after watching the 2018 Olympics he realised that there might be a chance of donning the black, green and gold of Jamaica. 

In 2019, he spent a day working with a former US Olympic skier, Gordon Gray. Mr Gray told him that his technique was “absolutely atrocious”, Mr Alexander told the BBC this week, but despite that, he managed to keep up with his coach.

“You’re fearless, the fact that you’re fearless means you have more than half the battle won”, Mr Alexander said Mr Gray told him.