Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian and Carrie Russell had been two of three athletes despatched to symbolize Jamaica on the 2018 Winter Olympics. Jamaica certified in three bobsled occasions for the 2022 Olympic Video games.
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Jamaica is sending a four-man bobsled workforce to the 2022 Olympic Video games in Beijing subsequent month for the primary time in over 20 years after qualifying on Monday.
Along with making a return to the occasion, Crew Jamaica can be sending athletes within the two-man bob and the ladies’s monobob, marking the first time in Olympic historical past that Jamaica has certified in three bobsled occasions.
Crew Jamaica final competed within the occasion in 1998, 10 years after they first debuted on the Winter Video games in Calgary. The well-known story of the workforce, composed of Devon Harris, Dudley Stokes, Michael White, Freddy Powell and Chris Stokes, impressed the favored 1993 Disney film “Cool Runnings.”
Jamaica simply missed an opportunity to compete on the 2018 Video games, however this yr they earned the ultimate spot within the 28-sled discipline.
The official workforce has not been introduced however, in keeping with the Olympics web site, Shanwayne Stephens has been piloting the four-man sled with Rolando Reid, Ashley Watson and Matthew Wekpe.
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