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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.
For the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, Watts switched to the two-man bobsled event. Competing alongside brakeman Lascelles Brown, the Jamaican pair set a new Olympic push-start record of 4.78 seconds. [5] Watts and Brown finished 28th out of the 37 competing teams in a time of 3 minutes 14.94 seconds. [6]
Turteltaub’s family comedy, which turns 30 on 1 October, very loosely adapted the unlikely real-life story of the 1988 Winter Olympics and the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team on ...
Whereas in the 1993 hit Cool Runnings, the subject was the Jamaican bobsled team’s unlikely quest to crash the 1988 Winter Olympics, ... the team lost 31-0 to Australia in 2001.)
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.
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.
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 ...