Jamaica's dream bobsleigh team: "Asafa Powell would be the driver with Usain Bolt at the back"

Imagine how fast a Jamaican men's bobsleigh could go with Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, and Asafa Powell in the engine room. What about a monobob or two-woman sled including Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shericka Jackson, or Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce?

While some think that the track athletics stars would potentially struggle to transfer their speed to the ice, the actual Jamaican bobsleigh team who are currently competing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, beg to differ.

"I trained with most of them back home in Jamaica, like Asafa Powell, Shelly-Ann Fraser,” brakeman Nimroy Turgott told Olympics.com. “I definitely asked Asafa Powell at one point if he was considering it, but someone showed him a video and changed his mind!

“Yohan Blake is extremely, extremely powerful. Powell would have been the driver. Then Bolt at the back.

“Elaine Thompson is the fastest woman alive. Natasha Morrison, Shericka Jackson, I can go on and on.

“But I still think those guys would be a wonderful asset to our team if we can get those top end track and field stars, we would appreciate and welcome them to our team.”

Unlike those athletics champions, just getting to the Olympics was a struggle for the bobsledders.

For starters, there was the COVID pandemic, which prevented the athletes from training together.

Then there was the not-so-small matter of the cost of the equipment and sleds needed to compete.

But with the help of donations and a crowd-funding campaign, the team managed to get to China.

“It's been an extremely tough four year cycle for us,” pilot and U.K. RAF serviceman Shanwayne Stephens told Olympics.com. “We're a small nation and we achieve great things from little resources.

“The first time our team really came together was 18 September last