Bobsleigh success coughing up more opportunities

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?

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...
Don’t Call Them ‘Cool Runnings’

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

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

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...