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 Team at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, which inspired the Hollywood movie “Cool Runnings.”
Meet the new stars of this Jamaican participation.
The year was 1988. At the Calgary Winter Olympics, Jamaica was the center of attention because, for the first time in its history, it was fielding a bobsleigh team at an Olympic event.
Dudley Stokes, Michael Whie, Devon Harris, and Chris Stokes made Olympic and national history by becoming the first representatives of the Caribbean island to compete in the Winter Olympics.