Jamaica’s original Olympic bobsled team helped fund its journey to the games through t-shirt and merchandise sales. Sleds and other sliding equipment were in poor condition, making the team ...

Prior to the Winter Olympics, hardly anybody had heard of Eddie Edwards. Some people knew Jamaica had a bobsled team, though.

At Mt. Van Hoevenberg, the Jamaica bobsled teams trains toward Olympic glory with new generation of bobsledders.

Parkinson’s path to the Canadian national bobsleigh team has been a less travelled route—one that started on a diving ...

The 1988 Games catapulted Calgary onto the international ... which told the tale of the Jamaican bobsled team. Jamaica competed in the Winter Olympics for the first time in 1988, in the two ...

Nearly every millennial knows the 1993 classic movie Cool Runnings. Did you know the REAL Jamaican bobsled team is currently ...

1932 — Eddie Eagen, as a member of the four-man U.S. bobsled team, wins a gold ... Colorado to a 7-5 win at Calgary. 2010 — American Seth Wescott defends his Olympic title in Vancouver ...

They have already secured a place at 2026 Olympic pre-qualifiers later this year. Their story is a sort of encore of the Jamaican bobsleigh team who were immortalised in the movie "Cool Runnings ...