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What happened to the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Olympics?

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What happened to the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Olympics?​

The team did not compete in the fourth run of the event, and subsequently were listed as not finishing the event and therefore were placed in the last place overall. The story of the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics was turned into the 1993 movie Cool Runnings.
Who is the Jamaican bobsled racer in Cool Runnings?
Clayton was also a member of the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team that competed at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada — which marked the first ever team from the island nation to compete at the Winter Games. Their team later inspired the Disney movie, “Cool Runnings.”
What happened to the Jamaican sled at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
The team returned to the Olympics in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, but finished poorly. They qualified again for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. There, the Jamaican four sled stunned many of their critics by finishing in 14th place, ahead of the United States, Russia, Australia, and France.

Who are the members of the United States bobsleigh team?​

The team, consisting of Devon Harris, Dudley Stokes, Michael White, Freddy Powell, and last minute replacement Chris Stokes, debuted at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. The team was coached by Howard Siler, an Olympic bobsledder for the United States in 1972 and 1980.

Jamaica entered two bobsleigh teams at the Olympics in 1988. Dudley ‘Tal’ Stokes and Michael White in the two-man with Devon Harris and last-minute replacement Chris Stokes joining them for the four-man. Chris is Tal’s brother who was initially just there to watch. The crash meant the team received a ‘Did Not Finish’ result.
Who were the first Jamaican bobslers?
The first four members of the Jamaican bobsled team were: Devon Harris, a Lieutenant in the Second Battalion, Jamaican Army Dudley Stokes, a captain from the JDF Air Wing Michael White, a private in the National Reserves & Samuel Clayton, a railway engineer
Where did the Canadian Olympic bobsleigh team train?
The bobsled team was selected in September 1987 and did their initial training in Jamaica; practicing the push start on a flat concrete surface on the military base in Kingston using a make shift sled. From there they went to Calgary, Canada where they went down a bobsled track for the first time.
 
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