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Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics consisted of two events, at Canada Olympic Park.The competition took place between February 20 and February 28, 1988. [1] [2]The event included competitors from countries with little history of bobsleigh participation and/or little or no snow. [3]
The drug testing laboratory for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games was installed at Foothills Hospital and accredited by the IOC Medical Commission in December 1987. [14] During the games a total of 428 urine samples were tested for banned substances, with one competitor testing positive for testosterone, and five hidden control samples correctly ...
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]
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.
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Bobsleigh is an Olympic sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. The sport was included in the first Winter Olympics in 1924 and has been held at every Olympics since, except 1960. The four-man event, which was first held in 1924, was switched to a five-man event in 1928.
In addition, another 16 participants have died at the Olympics from other causes; 11 of these deaths were from the Munich massacre. Several incidents related to the Olympics have caused the death of non-participants. Large numbers were killed during the Lima football riot of 1964 and the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City in 1968.
Jamaica's four-man bobsled team will be competing in this year's Winter Olympics for the first time in 24 years. Like the country's 1988 team that inspired the film "Cool Runnings," this team had ...