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The Jamaica national bobsleigh team represents Jamaica in international bobsleighing competitions. The men's team debut in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games four-man bobsleigh in Calgary, Alberta, [1] was received as underdogs in a cold weather sport represented by a nation with a tropical environment. Jamaica returned to the Winter Olympics in the ...
Jamaica's four-man bobsled team will be competing in this year's Winter Olympics for the first time in 24 years. Like the country's 1988 team that inspired the film "Cool Runnings," this team had ...
Jamaica competed at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea, from January 19 to February 1, 2024, This was Jamaica's second appearance at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, having last competed in 2016. The Jamaican team consisted of three athletes (one man and two women) competing in two sports.
Jamaica has qualified for the four-man Olympic bobsled event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, bringing back memories of the team that inspired "Cool Runnings."
It’s time to queue up “Cool Runnings” on Disney Plus.
Bobsleigh is an event in the Winter Olympic Games where a two- or four-person team drives a specially designed sled down an ice track, with the winning team completing the route with the fastest time.
Jamaica qualified a women's bobsled of two athletes. This will mark the first time the country has entered women into the bobsleigh competition. [2] [3] In the days leading up to the event the team's participation was in doubt after their German coach Sandra Kiriasis quit after refusing to change her role from driving coach to performance analyst.
Competing in three Winter Olympics, he is the first Jamaican-born athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal. [4] Brown was a member of the Jamaica national bobsled team from 1999 to 2004, [5] competing at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, as a brakeman for Winston Watt. The Jamaican duo set the track push record during those games.