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Thirty years ago, the Jamaican bobsled team competed for the first time in the Winter Olympics.

After pleading with the head of

Theirs is the ultimate underdog story: A group of guys with Olympic aspirations in a country known for its beaches but not snow. In the film, three sprinters — all fictional characters — fail to qualify for the Summer Olympics. After pleading with the head of the Jamaican Olympic Association to find another way to qualify, protagonist Derice Bannock Leon discovers that a former U.

Bannock and his friend, a local pushcart driver called Sanka Coffie Doug E. Doug , find the American alcoholic gambler in a bar in Kingston and try to coax him into coaching the team. They also spoke to the Jamaica Defense Force and got the help of Col. Ken Barnes to recruit players. Among those recruits was Harris, who was 22 at the time and serving in the Jamaican Army.

He was a middle-distance runner who tried out for the Summer Olympics, but failed to qualify. I always dreamed of being a summer Olympian for track but then my thinking shifted. I saw how amazing the opportunity was. In reality, the team was funded by Fitch and the Jamaican Tourism Board. The original recruits were not former track stars but three members of the Army — Capt.

Dudley Stokes, Lt.