Winter Sport: The Jamaican Bobsled Team

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The Jamaican Bobsled team became famous in 1988 Olympics when they represented Jamaica which is a tropical place that doesn’t get any snow and is always the right temperature. They were seen as an underdog in a winter sport. The team struggled in the 1992 Olympics in France. In the 1994 Olympics the team stunned the world by landing in 14th place ahead of the United State, Russia, And France. Since then, Jamaica has expanded their team and now competes with both talented men and women in the two man and four man bobsled team, and have now become a legitimate competitor in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The Men’s and Women’s Bobsled team became well known in 1988 at the Calgary Alberta event and gotten more and more popular over the years. And

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