Dow Travers secured qualification to the Vancouver Olympics at a skiing competition in Chile. He said upon qualifying, "I am feeling very Olympic today."[3] Travers was 22 years old at the time of the Games.[4] The only event he was entered into was the men's giant slalom, which took place on 23 February. He posted run times of 1 minute 29 seconds[7] and 1 minute 33 seconds,[8] for a combined total time of 3 minutes and 2 seconds.[9] This put him in 69th place out of 81 competitors who finished both runs, and the gold medal time was a combined 2 minutes and 37 seconds.[9]