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The story of the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics was turned into the 1993 movie Cool Runnings. [7] However, the film was only loosely based on actual events, with real-life coach Pat Brown later saying that the team had never experienced any of the animosity from the other teams as depicted in the movie. [8]
The 1988 four-man team were referenced in the 1999 Futurama episode "Xmas Story." The 2014 team was the inspiration for "The Bobsled Song" written by Sidney Mills from Steel Pulse, Jon Notar, and Groove Guild. The music video features 8-bit graphics. The song is timed to sync up to the team's Sochi bobsled run.
It is loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics, and stars Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba and John Candy. In the film, former Olympian Irving Blitzer (Candy) coaches a novice four-man bobsleigh team from Jamaica, led by sprinter Derice Bannock (Leon).
Turteltaub’s family comedy, which turns 30 on 1 October, very loosely adapted the unlikely real-life story of the 1988 Winter Olympics and the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team on ...
The competition took place between February 20 and February 28, 1988. [1] [2] The event included competitors from countries with little history of bobsleigh participation and/or little or no snow. [3] These countries included Jamaica (whose involvement spurred the film Cool Runnings in 1993), Mexico, and New Zealand. An informal "Caribbean Cup ...
A longtime music producer and a member of the iconic Jamaican bobsled team, Sam Clayton Jr. died last month after a battle with COVID-19.
The Jamaican bobsled team is back in the Winter Olympics for the first time in decades after qualifying for a spot in next month’s competition in Beijing.
Coach died and most playing careers ended, from a head-on crash on the Terni–Sulmona railway. Team was relegated and never recovered the second-tier Serie B league. [26] 10 February 1949: Belgian bobsled team: Bobsled: Bobsled: Lake Placid, New York, United States: 1: Max Houben killed in bobsled crash; teammate seriously injured [27] 11 ...