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Jamaica seeks sliding success to replace ‘Cool Runnings’ past
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy - Chris Stokes, a founding member of Jamaica’s original “Cool Runnings” bobsleigh crew, recalls being mobbed by fans at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics the moment he put on the team jacket and left the athletes’ village to go into town....
Bobsleigh-Jamaica seek sliding success to replace ‘Cool Runnings’ past
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Chris Stokes, a founding member of Jamaica's original "Cool Runnings" bobsleigh crew, recalls being mobbed by fans at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics the moment he put on the team jacket and left the athletes' village to...
The Jamaican Bobsleigh Team Is ‘Rewriting History’ While Carrying The ‘Cool Runnings’ Torch
Following in the footsteps of those who came before them, the Jamaican bobsleigh team is causing quite a chatter at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. If you’re a millennial who had an affinity for Disney classics throughout the 1990s and early...
Meet Joel Fearon, once Great Britain’s fastest man: How he found his way back on Jamaica’s bobsleigh team
In 2016, Fearon was Great Britain's fastest man over 100m, but bad timing meant he missed the Rio 2016 Olympics. He then quit sport briefly after the murder of his sister. Ten years on, he's set for his third Winter Olympics, and first for Jamaica at Milano Cortina:...
Utah company works with Team Jamaica to make Olympic comeback
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — The Olympic Jamaican bobsled team is working to make a comeback, and a Utah company is supporting it through the Milan-Cortina Winter Games. “We’re working on it and working just as hard as everybody else, if not harder,” Jamaican Olympian...
Major Lazer Gives Major Boost to Jamaican Bobsled Team With $10K Donation
Major Lazer is doing their bit to help the Olympic spirt along by making a major donation to the Jamaican bobsleigh team, just as their event is starting at the Winter Olympics in Milan. The EDM group made the donation on Friday (Feb. 13) to...
“Cool Runnings” – the bobsledders from the Caribbean
"Cool Runnings" - who doesn't know the sports film from 1993? Four Jamaican sprinters dare to make the leap to Calgary for the Olympic Games - as bobsledders! They are trained by comedian John Candy (1950-1994). A cinematic treat for young and old. The men from the...
Jamaica bobsleigh team to continue Cool Runnings legacy at Winter Olympics
Nearly four decades on from Jamaica's debut at the 1988 Calgary Olympics that inspired the cult film Cool Runnings, the Caribbean country's bobsledders are now preparing for their tenth Winter Games in Italy. At the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Jamaica will...
Fiat and the Jamaican bob, returns the historical partnership
TORINO (ITALPRESS) – Over twenty years since the iconic campaigns with Doblò, Fiat renounces the thread with the Jamaican national team of bob and launches a new winter adventure together with the new QUBO L. A partnership that celebrates friendship, inclusion and...
WSU MBA alum Chris Stokes reflects on an unlikely Olympic journey
When Chris Stokes landed at the Calgary airport in Canada on a February afternoon in 1988, the Washington State University graduate student had a simple plan: watch his older brother, Dudley, compete for the newly formed Jamaican bobsled team at the Winter Olympics....
Bobsleigh success coughing up more opportunities
With Jamaica to send three teams to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games, Jamaica Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (JBSF) president Chris Stokes says their success came down to leveraging their long-term corporate sponsors. Jamaica will be represented in the...
Does Jamaica still have a bobsled team?
How 2026 Olympics bring back Cool Runnings movie vibes There's no bobsled team more fascinating to the world of sports than the Jamaican national bobsleigh team. It's brought to mind every time the Winter Olympics comes around thanks to the 1993 movie Cool...
Don’t Call Them ‘Cool Runnings’
This Jamaican Bobsled Team Is Looking for More Nearly 40 years after inspiring the classic Disney film, the Caribbean nation’s sliding program is eyeing an Olympic medal in the next decade, if not at Milan Cortina. Cratered by potholes, the road to the Jamaican parish...
Cool Runnings 2.0
Crew want their own Hollywood ending Chris Stokes, part of the 1988 team that inspired a film, is setting lofty goals as head of Jamaica’s bobsleigh federation It did not make so much as a ripple outside of its minor sporting niche, but something particularly unusual...
JAMAICA READY
Team Jamaica surprised everyone a few days ago when it was confirmed that they had qualified in three sliding events for Milano Cortina 2026: women’s monobob, men’s two-man and four-man, which immediately reminded us of that historic participation of the Bobsleigh...
Mica Moore: Milano Cortina 2026
Mica Moore: Former Team GB bobsledder to represent Jamaica at Milano Cortina 2026 Moore represented Great Britain at PyeongChang 2018 before switching nationality to Jamaica - and is now ready to compete in the bobsleigh for the Island nation. Read More
Jamaica’s bobsleigh borrowed from Korea
“Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme!” More than three decades after the film “Cool Runnings” (1993) turned Jamaica’s bobsleigh team into a pop-culture symbol, the country is heading back to the Olympics — this time riding a sleigh loaned by Korea and carrying a résumé...
Shane Pitter: Milano Cortina 2026
Shane Pitter: The Jamaican bobsleigh pilot chasing history at Milano Cortina 2026 The history-making Jamaican pilot compares fishing to bobsleigh, tips his cap to 'Cool Runnings' and outlines his goals for Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in an exclusive interview...
FAST AND ‘FLURRIOUS’
As Jamaica seeks to become a force in bobsleigh, there has been a recruitment of track and field athletes to join the winter sport. This approach has yielded promising results, but, as pointed out by some of the country’s biggest stakeholders, excelling in athletics...
DUAL TARGETS
Former national champion Tracey ambitiously holds onto track & bobsleigh dreamTyquendo Tracey has dealt with several setbacks over the years including seeing Olympic Games dreams dashed through injury. However, the two-time former national champion is ready to be...