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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).
Nelson Christian "Chris" Stokes has been an active member of the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team since its inception in 1988. [2]Stokes was a successful track and field athlete, and after his associate degree from Bronx Community College, he was awarded an athletic scholarship to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. [2]
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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.
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.
The Jamaica Dogsled Team is a team of sled dogs and mushers (sled dog racers) headquartered at Chukka Caribbean Adventures in Ocho Rios, located in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. The dog team is made up of strays rescued by the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and offers dryland dogsled rides, along with the adventure center ...