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“We were a bit surprised that this disparity was actually larger than in the general population,” said Dr. Sarka Lisonkova of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, who led the research.

In 1993, a cousin, Sarka Gauglitz, who lived in Germany, got in touch.

“There was this weird scene where I said to Sarka, ‘How Jewish are we?’ and then she said, ‘What? You’re Jewish.’

“You’re going up the chairlift and you see these little tornadoes,” Sarka Pancochova, a Czech snowboarder, told reporters, “and you’re like, ‘What is this?’”

But perhaps no one can top one man rooting for Sarka Pancochova of the Czech Republic.