Trinidad and Tobago bobsleigh team going for glory at Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

Axel Brown and Andre Marcano are making history at Beijing 2022.

They form the 2-man Trinidad and Tobago bobsled team, making them the Caribbean nation's first athletes at the Winter Olympics since Salt Lake City 2002.

"(We are) the lesser known of the two Caribbean sleds," said Brown, who is also an accomplished American football player and taekwondo athlete. "Jamaica, understandably, has all the attention but we're here as well, for the first time in a while."

Brown is the pilot and Marcano is the brakeman and sprinter. The former, who has a Trinidadian mother and British father, was in need of a brakeman after he decided to switch allegiances after representing Great Britain for seven years.

That's when Marcano, who only began to bobsled in October 2021, came into the frame. On Instagram. That's right, Brown found Marcano, a three-time Trinidad National Championships finalist in track-and-field, on the social media platform.

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Brown and Marcano will be competing in the 2-man bobsleigh heats in a field of 30 competitors. They are scheduled to be the 29th to slide, right before Jamaica's Shanwayne Stephens and Nimroy Turgott finish out the heat.

"I was pretty horrible on the first day," Marcano said, looking back on his time on the bobsled. "After the first day I feel, he's sending me home, he's wasting my time."

"A normal team - everybody else, the other 29 teams here - have been working together for years and years and years," said Brown. "They have rapport, they know each other inside-out as persons, as athletes. We've really been against the clock on that."

Marcano has taken unpaid leave from his job as a physical education teacher at an elementary school in