Laugh all you want, the Jamaican Bobsled Team is back and on track in its qualifying bid for the 21st Olympic Winter Games scheduled to be held February 12-28, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. According to the
Jamaica Information Service, the team recently concluded four months of training and competition with a 10th place finish in the two-man race at the Bobsled and Skeleton World Championship in Lace Placid, New York. Yes mon, laugh all you want, as a Jamaican expat, I have to be happy for my yaadies.
Other highlights of the team's season include a 20th place finish at the Junior World Championship in Koenigsee, Germany, as well as extensive sliding time in Park City, Utah. While on a brief stopover in New York on April 3 on their way home from Lake Placid, Alexander, Wallace and Marvin Dixon, toured the Jamaican-owned Caribbean Food Delights production plant located in Tappan.
Devon Harris, a member of Jamaica's first bobsled team, which qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, served as chaperone during the group's stop in New York. Source: JIS
Don't count the island out yet, if the past Olympics in which Usain Bolt and the other sprinters made a tremendous mark, this may be yet another area in which the island does well. Okay, I am not saying they will win, but they may surprise everyone. Yeh mon, Jamaica's got a bobsled team!
Laugh all you want, the Jamaican Bobsled Team is back and on track in its qualifying bid for the 21st Olympic Winter Games scheduled to be held February 12-28, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. According to the Jamaica Information Service, the team recently concluded four months of training and competition with a 10th place finish in the two-man race at the Bobsled and Skeleton World Championship in Lace Placid, New York. Yes mon, laugh all you want, as a Jamaican expat, I have to be happy for my yaadies.
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