"Rasta Rockett", the return: Jamaica sends three bobsleigh teams to the 2022 Olympics

Jamaica will be represented at the Beijing Olympics (February 4-20) for the first time in its history in three bobsleigh events, the Jamaican Olympic Committee announced on Monday.

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Jamaica can also hope to participate in the fourth and final event on the 2022 Olympics program, since in the women's two-man bobsleigh, the Jamaican crew narrowly missed out on qualifying and have the status of first substitute. Jamaica made history at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, by participating for the first time in the bobsleigh events, in the two-man (30th) and four-man (retired) events.

The country has since taken part in the bobsleigh events at the Olympics on several occasions, in men's and women's two-man bobsleigh, but we had to go back to 1998 to find traces of a Jamaican crew in the four-man bob, the premier category. The male quartet and their improbable dream of Olympic glory in Calgary then inspired the film “

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A member of this crew, Chris Stokes is now president of the Jamaican Bobsleigh Federation and faces a challenge of a different nature: that of succeeding in financing new equipment, in particular very expensive bobsleighs or sleds. The Jamaican Olympic Committee has been trying since the end of November to raise 194,000 dollars (170,200 euros) for this via an online financing operation. But so far, she's only raised $4,000.

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