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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 ...
The story of the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics was turned into the 1993 movie Cool Runnings. [7] However, the film was only loosely based on actual events, with real-life coach Pat Brown later saying that the team had never experienced any of the animosity from the other teams as depicted in the movie. [8]
The event included competitors from countries with little history of bobsleigh participation and/or little or no snow. [3] These countries included Jamaica (whose involvement spurred the film Cool Runnings in 1993), Mexico, and New Zealand. An informal "Caribbean Cup" of such countries was won by New Zealand's Alexander Peterson and Peter Henry ...
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 ...
The film implies Jamaica as the only country from a tropical climate to compete in bobsleigh at the Olympics; while they were the only Caribbean country to feature in the four-man competition, Netherlands Antilles and two teams from the U.S. Virgin Islands competed in the 38-team two-man competition, who finished 29th, 35th, and 38th ...
The Jamaican bobsled team is back in the Winter Olympics for the first time in decades after qualifying for a spot in next month’s competition in Beijing. Jamaican bobsledders make history ahead ...
Jamaica hasn’t sent a four-man team to the Olympics since the 1998 games in Nagano. It nearly sent a team to the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, but it missed qualification by just a single spot.
Jamaica at the 1992 Winter Olympics; IOC code: JAM: NOC: Jamaica Olympic Association: Website: www.joa.org.jm: in Albertville; Competitors: 5 (men) in 1 sport: Flag bearer : Dudley Stokes (bobsleigh) Medals: Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0: Winter Olympics appearances