and ended up selling T-shirts and sweatshirts wherever we were. As the day went on we could tell how good our supper was going to be based on how many we'd sold. Jamaican Bobsled team (l-r ...

“This Jamaican bobsled team was a real thing,” former coach ... attract corporate sponsorship for the team, which had sold T-shirts and its own reggae song to help sustain it in Calgary.

Photo by Nancie Battaglia. Modest beginnings Jamaica’s original Olympic bobsled team helped fund its journey to the games through t-shirt and merchandise sales. Sleds and other sliding equipment ...

Almost 40 years after a Jamaican bobsled team charmed Olympic viewers, the country's program is climbing the ranks and prompting hopes of winning Jamaica's first winter Olympic medal. Perhaps you ...

The dream of the Jamaican bobsled team began with a makeshift sled, a sun-baked concrete track and a distant hope of qualifying for the 1988 Olympics. "I remember saying to myself, 'Nobody could ...

They became the official novelty act of winter. In a sport dominated by German aerospace engineers, Swiss pilots and Russian technicians, the Jamaican bobsled team ...

Perhaps you remember the underdog story of Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. Perhaps you at least remember the Hollywood movie it inspired. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “COOL RUNNINGS”) DOUG ...

The Jamaican bobsled team's underdog story became a sensation at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, inspiring the Hollywood film "Cool Runnings." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "COOL RUNNINGS") DOUG E DOUG ...