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A video game based on no particular year's team was released for the Wii on October 12th, 2010. Titled Sled Shred featuring the Jamaican Bobsled Team and published by SouthPeak Games, it features characters steered by tilting the Wii Remote sliding down icy paths in varied scenery atop various sleds. [40]
Two members of the Jamaican team (Dudley Stokes and Michael White) also competed in the two-man sled competition, completing all four runs and finishing in 30th place; [25] Stokes and White were set to compete in two-man bobsleigh event only, with the four-man team entered to compete after the two-man event had already been completed. [22]
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 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.
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For the first time in more than two decades, Jamaica is sending a four-man bobsled team to the Winter Olympics. Jamaica claimed the final spot in the 28-sled field for the Beijing Olympics, which ...
The Jamaican two-man bobsleigh in action. Jamaica qualified one sled for competition. [4] [5] The team lacked funding, so the cryptocurrency Dogecoin community raised on the team's behalf $30,000 of the approximately $40,000 required within two days. [6] [7] An additional $80,000 was raised in online donations through Crowdtilt before 21 ...
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 ...