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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 1988 four-man team were referenced in the 1999 Futurama episode "Xmas Story." The 2014 team was the inspiration for "The Bobsled Song" written by Sidney Mills from Steel Pulse, Jon Notar, and Groove Guild. The music video features 8-bit graphics. The song is timed to sync up to the team's Sochi bobsled run.
In the film, the team crashes due to mechanical and structural failures in the front left blade of their bobsled on their third and final run. In reality, the crash occurred on their penultimate run and was deemed to occur due to driver inexperience, excess speed, and regressing the turn too high, which caused the sled to become unstable and ...
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 ...
For the first time in more than two decades, Jamaica is sending a four-man bobsled team to the Winter Olympics. Jamaica claimed the final spot in the 28-sled field for the Beijing Olympics, which ...
This track is one of only two of its type in the world to be featured in a non-documentary film when it was part of the 1993 American film Cool Runnings which loosely followed the Jamaican Bobsled Team during their competition in bobsleigh at the 1988 Games (The other was the 1981 British film For Your Eyes Only which included scenes from the ...
A longtime music producer and a member of the iconic Jamaican bobsled team, Sam Clayton Jr. died last month after a battle with COVID-19. Coronavirus: 1988 Jamaican bobsled team member dies due to ...
Dudley Clifford "Tal" Stokes [1] (born 22 June 1962) is a Jamaican bobsledder [2] and bobsled coach. [3] He competed at the 1988, 1992, 1994 and the 1998 Winter Olympics. [4]In 1993, Disney produced a successful feature film called Cool Runnings about the 1988 Olympics, a fictional story about the first time a Jamaican bobsleigh team competed in the Olympics.