Watch Jamaican 4-Man Bobsled Team Make Its Historic Return To Winter Olympics

General Assignment Reporter, HuffPost
The four-man Jamaican bobsled team was back at the Winter Olympics on Saturday. And also back of the pack. (Watch the video below.)
The squad finished last among 28 teams in the first two heats combined, but that didn’t put a damper on its first appearance at the games since Nagano in 1998.
“This is a massive achievement for the team,” driver Shanwayne Stephens wrote on Instagram before the competition.
Stephens, Ashley Watson, Rolando Reid and Matthew Wekpe were a combined 5.19 seconds behind the leading German squad.
The Jamaican four-man bobsled team is BACK at the #WinterOlympics for the first time in 24 years. 🇯🇲 @TeamJA876 // @Olympics pic.twitter.com/hlIia2oc5c
The island nation also had a two-man team and a woman in the monobob at the Beijing Games. But the four-man squad is the stuff of pop culture legend due to the movie “Cool Runnings,” a lighthearted dramatization of Jamaica’s first Olympic foursome in Calgary in 1988.
The country is looking for another Hollywood ending at future games.
“Our big plan for 2026 is to qualify for four events, two teams per event, and to have someone on the podium in 2030,” Jamaican Bobsleigh Federation President Chris Stokes told The Daily Mirror.
General Assignment Reporter, HuffPost

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