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 of Trelawny narrows into a ribbon, cutting through sugar cane fields and extending into an area that has produced some of the country’s greatest athletes. Here, mere miles apart, are the hometowns of eight-time Olympic gold medalist sprinter Usain Bolt and his former relay teammate Tyquendo Tracey.