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A video game based on no particular year's team was released for the Wii on October 12th, 2010. Titled "Sled Shred featuring the Jamaican Bobsled Team" and published by SouthPeak Games, it features characters steered by tilting the Wii Remote sliding down icy paths in varied scenery atop various sleds. [40]
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]
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).
Its only representatives were the Jamaican bobsleigh team; they did not win a medal. ... Olympic Winter Games 1992, full results by sports-reference.com
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]
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.
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.
Marvin Dixon (born on September 9, 1983 [1]) is a member of the Jamaica national bobsleigh team and competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsled. Dixon was born on August 9, 1983, in Rockfort, St. Andrews, Jamaica. He has been a Jamaica National team member since May 2007.