Among other nationalities, the Beijing Winter Olympics will focus on Jamaica‘s national team. After 24 years, the Caribbean country will send four-time games, and even in three disciplines. In addition to the double bobsleigh, the double bobsleigh and the women’s monobob also met the nomination criteria.
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“Jamaica, we have a bobsleigh team on the way to Beijing. It will be a fire on ice, “the Jamaican Union said proudly on social networks.
“This is the first time Jamaica has qualified for the three bobsleigh Olympics,” officials said.
The Jamaicans last competed in the quadruple Olympics in 1998 in Nagano.
Ten years earlier, the legendary crew of pilot Dudley Stokes had a historic premiere in Calgary, according to which the filmmakers in Hollywood subsequently made the film Coconuts in the Snow.
Recall the 1993 film Coconuts in the Snow:
In the double bombers, the competitors still represented Jamaica in Salt Lake City in 2002 and in Sochi in 2014, but at the last Olympic Games in Pyongyang, yellow-black-green colors were already missing in the men’s representation. At least the female crew started there.
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.
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