Portugal qualified one male athlete.[4][5] Lam is Canadian-Portuguese and was born in Macau, at the time under the control of Portugal giving him Portuguese citizenship. Lam grew up in Canada from an early age, and pursued competing for Canada in snowboarding until 2013 when he suffered an injury. Lam switched to cross-country skiing and competing for Portugal in 2015, in the hopes of competing at the Winter Olympics.[6]