If you have seen the disney classic Cool Runnings (which Im sure you have, and if not you have yet to see the light of day) which portrays the comedic struggle of the newly founded Jamaican bobsled team in the 1988 calgary winter olympics. The movie used fictional characters but all were based off the real sledders:
Devon Harris: lieutenant in the Second Battalion, Jamaican Army
Dudley Stokes: captain from the JDF Air Wing
Michael White: a private in the National Reserves
Samuel Clayton: a railway engineer
Just to recap, on one of their final four runs their bobled flipped just meters away from the finish line and heroicly walked to it afterwards [video below].
Now after this they competed in the 1992 winter olympics and failed horribly but in 1994 qualified and came in 14th ahead of the United States, Russia, France and Italy and even won a gold medal at the World Push Bobsled Championships in 2000.
Unforunatly, even though they were on a roll they did non qualify for the vancouver olypmic games and will truly be missed. We hope to see them in years to come but untill then..
while your drinking with your friends and watching the bobsled runs, raise your glasses for our dear friends the Jamaican Bobsledd Team
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