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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]
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.
Under the guidance of disgraced bobsled coach Irving “Irv” Blitzer , the quartet defy the odds to become Jamaica’s first Olympic-qualifying bobsled team. They then swap their balmy paradise ...
This year, Jamaica’s 4-man bobsled team is back at the Winter Olympics, qualifying for the first time since 1998. The original Jamaican Bobsled team, made famous by the movie “Cool Runnings ...
It is loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics, and stars Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba and John Candy. In the film, former Olympian Irving Blitzer (Candy) coaches a novice four-man bobsleigh team from Jamaica, led by sprinter Derice Bannock (Leon).
In all, he was a 5-time US champion and a 9-time member of the US World team. [2] in 1985 Siler served as the United States team coach and also as chairman of the US Bobsled Federation Competition Committee. [3] Siler later coached the Jamaican bobsleigh team that participated at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Twenty-three nations participated in bobsleigh at the 1988 Games. With nine debutants, more than a third of these were competing in Olympic bobsleigh for the first time. The nations making debuts were Netherlands Antilles, Australia, Bulgaria, U.S. Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand and Portugal.