Cool Runnings

...Oct. 29, a Trinidadian student and four white friends decided to dress up as the Jamaican bobsled team from the 1993 kitsch film Cool Runnings. They wore brightly coloured tracksuits, one dreadlocks wig and Jamaican flag T-shirts. Oh, and...

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...their debut in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary , Alberta, Canada. They are also well known from their portrayal in the film Cool Runnings, based on their exploits in the Winter Olympics. Two Americans were largely responsible...

In this article: George B. Fitch, Jamaica, 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver, Calgary, New York, and Howard Siler

...the team returned to Jamaica as heroes, and upon their return to the Winter Olympics four years later , they were treated as equals. The film had total domestic earnings of $68,856,263 in the United States and Canada, and $86,000,000...

In this article: Jamaica, Calgary, Bobsleigh, Eugenio Monti, United States, Jon Turteltaub, and Malik Yoba

...experience." Jamaicans are back The Jamaican bobsled team, made famous during the 1988 Olympics in Calgary and later the movie "Cool Runnings" hopes to be in Vancouver in February. If it is, it may have U.S. slider Todd Hays to...

In this article: Vancouver, Caleb Campbell, Lake Placid, N.Y., Jamaica, U.S., and Royal Canadian Artillery

...in Calgary, Canada, never made it to the finish line (they crashed their sled). But they did inspire the 1993 Walt Disney movie "Cool Runnings," which starred John Candy as the team coach. MADONNA Long before she was a sinewy serial...

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...U.S. Army put his NFL career on pause in 2008 elicited a laugh from Caleb Campbell. "The only thing I could think about was (the movie) Cool Runnings," Campbell said, recalling a voice mail he received from USA bobsled assistant coach Bill...

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...the Olympic program for the 2012 London Games. Takayama said she began preparing for the transition to bobsled by watching the movie "Cool Runnings," which is based on the Jamaica national team's debut at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.

In this article: Japan, Silver, Seiko Hashimoto, 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Sydney, Tokyo, and Athens

...tale of triumph over the odds has echoes of the Jamaican bobsleigh team, whose appearance at the Calgary Games in 1988 spawned the Hollywood film Cool Runnings. Born in Glasgow, where his father was completing a doctorate, he grew up in a...

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Cool Runnings is a 1993 comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub. It is loosely based on the Jamaica national bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Starring Leon Robinson, Doug E. Doug, Malik Yoba, Rawle D. Lewis, and...

In this article: Jon Turteltaub, Malik Yoba, John Candy, Doug E. Doug, Leon Robinson, Calgary, Alberta, and Jamaica

...a grass-roots campaign to beat Kilgore in classic come-from-behind fashion, with the tenacity of the bobsledders, upon whom the Disney movie "Cool Runnings" was loosely based. Fitch, an international trade consultant, pledged in an...

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