Record no. MRB-2026-006615

First Tropical Nation to Field an Olympic Bobsled Team

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The Jamaican bobsled team became the first tropical Caribbean nation to compete in Winter Olympic bobsled, debuting at the 1988 Calgary Games in a feat later dramatized in the film Cool Runnings.