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Déjà vu for Jamaica's bobsled team in Sochi─── 09:21 Thu, 06 Feb 2014
Morgan Piek
Bloemfontein - It’s not a script for a movie, well, once it was. But it’s not a script for a sequel…
Jamaica’s bobsled team have arrived in Russia for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, 26 years after competing in Calgary, Canada for the first time.
As in ’88, the team relied heavily on donations and fund raisers to compete.
It’s also a matter of déjà vu as the team arrived in Moscow without their equipment.
The carefree Jamaicans were unable to make their first practice runs Wednesday because their luggage, with the runners for their two-man sled as well as all their sliding gear, was missing.
Driver Winston Watts said he and brakeman Marvin Dixon missed their connecting flight in Moscow after being delayed by bad weather in New York.
So who knows…there could very well be a sequel to the 1993 classic “Cool Runnings” which was based on the true events surrounding the Caribbean island's first team to compete in the Winter Olympics.
Yolanda Maartens reports on what could be the scrip for Cool Runnings 2:
