They made history. Catch up with them now.
. For the Calgary Winter Olympics, Jamaica sent its very first bobsled team. That team came to be after two American businessmen living in Jamaica watched a pushcart race, which reminded them of bobsledding, on the island. The men who joined the team had not only never bobsledded before but also weren't initially interested—Jamaica is a warm-weather country, after all.
The team came together through open tryouts and recruiting through the military."I got into bobsledding because I was told to go," explained team memberin 2013."I was in the Army at the time. The Colonel made the suggestion to me and because I was a Captain, you do as you're told and obey orders." The bobsledders qualified for the Olympics, and while they were initially only going to compete in the two-man event, they decided to compete in the four-man race once there, using a borrowed Canadian bobsled painted in Jamaica's colors. The four-man team ended up not finishing their event due to a crash, but they became a phenomenon regardless. The 1993 inspirational movieNow, it's been 34 years since the Jamaican bobsled team's first Olympics.
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