Jamaica bobsleigh: When are Cool Runnings-linked Jamaican team competing at Beijing 2022 Olympics?

One of the standout moments of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games will be the performances of the Jamaica bobsleigh team. It will be the first time in 24 years that a four-man crew will represent the nation at a Winter Olympics and all eyes will be on the quartet when they hit the ice in Beijing. Ad/> The current team will be looking to do much more than simply remind fans of the famous exploits of the 1988 Jamaica team who inspired the legendary sports movie Cool Runnings, which hit cinemas in 1993.

Beijing 2022'Incredible' — Rutherford reflects on representing GB in 'brutal' bobsleighYESTERDAY AT 03:43 Who is in the Jamaica team? The quartet is made up of: Matthew Wekpe, Nimroy Turgott, Ashley Watson and Shanwayne Stephens. When are they competing in Beijing? The four-man bobsleigh event does not begin until Saturday 19 February as one of the last events at the Games. The first two runs take place on February 19 before a day later the third and fourth runs bring the event to its conclusion with the medals.

How did the famous 1988 team get on? Haven't you seen the movie? Well, Cool Runnings was only loosely based on the real thing from the Calgary Winter Olympic Games. Devon Harris, Dudley Stokes, Michael White and Nelson Stokes were the four men who made history as Jamaica made its debut in the event. It is true that they crashed out of the event and carried their sled over the finish line, as the movie so memorably captured in the iconic finale.