“Jamaica, we have a bobsled team on their way to Beijing. It will be a fire on the ice,” the Jamaican Association said on Twitter. “This is the first time Jamaica has qualified for three bobsled Olympics,” he said.
The Jamaican four-time team will perform under the five rings for the first time since the Nagano Games in 1998. Ten years earlier, the legendary crew of pilot Dudley Stokes had its historic premiere in Calgary, which became the model for the Hollywood film hit Coconuts in the Snow. At least in the double bomb, the Jamaicans were still represented in Salt Lake City in 2002 and Sochi in 2014, last time in Pyongyang the men were not in the ice trough at the start, but for a change they assembled a two-member crew of women.
This time, women’s doubles will be the only discipline in which Jamaicans will not be represented. However, the national association is facing major financial difficulties that do not allow it to purchase top racing machines. “Our athletes work hard, they sacrifice, just like everyone else, but without top equipment they can never reach their potential,” the union said on its website.
As a result, he has been running a crowdfunding campaign to help the bobbisers since November, but only 4,000 of the $ 194,000 needed by Jamaicans have so far fallen.
