The Beijing Olympics opening ceremony featured a new, shirtless, oily flag bearer from American Samoa

• Nathan Crumpton is the lone athlete at the Beijing Olympics representing American Samoa.
• Crumpton walked the Parade of Nations shirtless with an oily upper body.

The Winter Olympics opening ceremony once again featured an oily, shirtless flag bearer.

At the opening ceremony for Beijing 2022, Nathan Crumpton, representing American Samoa, walked out as the lone athlete representing his nation, with no shirt and a oily upper body.

Of course, since Rio in 2016, Tonga's Pita Taufatofua has filled the role of oily, shirtless flagbearer at each Olympics. However, Taufatofua is not in Beijing and has been helping relief efforts from a tsunami that hit Tonga.

Crumpton is a 36-year-old who is competing in skeleton. He also competed at the Tokyo Olympics in the 100-meter sprint.

According to his Team USA biography, Crumpton was born in Kenya, but later moved to Utah to ski and snowboard. He fell in love with skeleton after watching it in the 2010 Olympics. He also ran track at Princeton University.

NBC's Mike Tirico said during the ceremony that Crumpton is also a model and photographer.

Crumpton immediately won some fans for the brave move — Tirico said temperatures are in the 20s at Beijing, with a windchill that makes it feel like the teens.