21. COOL RUNNINGS Chicago SunTimes columnist's review of this 1993 comedy centered around the Jamaican bobsled team. Starring John Candy and directed by John Turteltaub. (PG-13) http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1993/10/881524.html

Chicago Sun-Times photographers capture the best of Chicago in pictures Home News Sports ... Zwecker COOL RUNNINGS Date of publication: 10/01/1993 For cast, rating and other information, (click here) By Roger Ebert There really was a Jamaican bobsled team. And if the movie "Cool Runnings" can be trusted, the Jamaicans practiced on a bobsled with wheels, in the absence of any snow in their native land. Then they went to the winter Olympics, where the crowds cheered their pluck, if not their speed. The problem with a story like this is that it's almost too perfect. It tends to break out of the boundaries of the typical sports movie, and undermine those easy cliches that are so reassuring to sports fans. The Olympics have fostered a cult of excellence in which athletes become superhuman, and victories are measured in a tenth of a second. If a bunch of guys can get there by practicing in a bobsled with wheels, nothing is sacred. "Cool Runnings" could have been a subversive movie, then - undermining the carefully-controlled imagery of the Olympics, which are only marginally less a retail business than, say, the Chicago Bulls. But the movie has no such ambition. Although the Jamacian bobsled team broke all the rules, the movie is content to follow them - to reprocess the story into the same formula as countless sports movies before it. The recipe for such movies is set in stone. Write one yourself; you might get lucky. We begin with underdogs, coached by a loser with a scandal in his past and a lot to prove. We linger for a scene or two over the personalities on the team. We show practice sessions in which the team is absolutely without talent. We show despair. Then, just when things look their bleakest, the guys decide not to give up, and somehow they start to get better.

22. Bobsled - Winter Olympics - CBS Sportsline Exclusive coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics from Nagano Japan including up to the second news, columns and schedules for every event. Skiing hockey bobsled luge figure skating and more. http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/olympics/nagano98/bobsled/i_photos.html

23. United States Bobsled And Skeleton Federation http://www.usbsf.com/index3.htm

24. Canada Olympic Park Home of Canada's only refrigerated bobsled track. Provides events schedule, information on museum and hall of fame, and job opportunities. http://www.coda.ab.ca/COP/

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28. Olympics 2002 - CBS.SportsLine.com and 7.81 seconds. (AP), Instead of just one sled, two US teams endthe American 46year medal drought in men's bobsled. USA-1 and http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/olympics/2002/bobsled/

Euro Sports NFL.com SportsLine Rewards ... Speed Skating More Men's Results Women's Results Results Schedule ... Ones to Watch 2002 OLYMPICS Store OPINION Predictions EXCLUSIVES Photo Gallery History Venues Weather ... Utah $20.02 ARCHIVES Sydney 2000 DESTINATIONS Olympic Sports Two for the show Todd Hays drives USA-1 to silver with a total time of 3 minutes and 7.81 seconds. (AP) Instead of just one sled, two U.S. teams end the American 46-year medal drought in men's bobsled. USA-1 and USA-2 Full story Related Links: Photo Gallery Olympic Highlights F E A T U R E S Olympic Highlights Enjoy all the thrills, spills and chills from Salt Lake City! Multi-medal winners Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Janica Kostelic led the pack with four medals. Photo Gallery See the best images from each day in Salt Lake City. USA Hockey forward Shelley Looney took time out to answer a few questions for SportsLine.com. Complete predictions One of the most difficult sporting events to predict is the Olympic Games. Check out how we did. Medal drought Check out the events in which the U.S. has still never won a medal. Medal winners Take a look at the 2002 U.S. Olympic Team's career medal totals.

29. USA Today bobsled news from the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. http://www.usatoday.com/olympics/owg98/owgbs/owgbsm.htm

Front page News Sports Money ... Sports Main Categories Sports briefs Scores NFL Baseball ... Fantasy More Sports Boxing Horse racing Columnists Transactions ... Weather Inside News Nationline Washington World Politics ... Weird news Search Newspaper Archives Our site Yellow ... Pages Resources Index Feedback What's hot About us ... TODAY Free premiums USA TODAY Update Software 07/12/99- Updated 04:58 PM ET The Nation's Homepage Bobsled KEY FACTS Nagano competition DATES: Feb. 14-15, 20-21. VENUE: Spiral 1994 GAMES: Brian Shimer and Randy Jones finished 13th in the two-man. The four-man team of Randy Will, Jeff Woodard, Joe Sawyer and Chris Coleman was 15th. GOLD MEDAL COUNT: U.S. has won two gold medals in the two-man event and three in the four-man competition, but none in either event since 1948. 1998 MEDAL WINNERS: Two-man Gold - Canada, Italy Bronze - Germany Four-man Gold - Germany Silver - Switzerland Bronze - Britain, France NOTEBOOK THE FINAL PUSH: The USA I sled, which missed a bronze by 0.02 seconds in the four-man race, probably raced together for the last time. Driver Brian Shimer, 35, will return for at least a year, but push athletes Chip Minton, Randy Jones and Garrett Hines are expected to leave. ''I feel bad for my guys,'' coach Steve Maiorca said. ''I'm sure (USA II driver) Jim (Herberich) and Brian will be back, but for Chip, Randy and Garrett, that was their last push.'' Herberich, 34, says he's ''leaning a little toward coming back, but I'm not sure I want to go through this again.'' DROUGHT CONTINUES: Germany won the Olympic gold medal in four-man bobsled with a time of 2 minutes, 39.41 seconds. Switzerland won the silver, and Britain and France shared the bronze. Driver Brian Shimer and USA 1 finished finished fourth, just two-hundredths of a second out of third. Shimer was attempting to break the 42-year Olympic medal drought for the United States in a sport it once dominated. Jim Herberich in USA 2 was 12th in 2:41.27, in his first Olympic four-man race.

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31. Jamaican Bobsled Team Jamaican bobsled Team 920 Main St. In 1997 the Jamaican bobsled Team selectedEvanston, Wyoming as their North American training base. http://www.jamaicanbobsled.com/content.html

Support the team by mailing donations to: Jamaican Bobsled Team 920 Main St. Evanston, WY 82930 Have any questions about offering support? Email us Our Web Space Provider Is: Created By: Trio Web Development Welcome to the official website for the Jamaican Bobsleigh Federation in North America. The Jamaican Bobsleigh Federation is the governing body of the sport of bobsledding in Jamaica. In 1997 the Jamaican Bobsled Team selected Evanston, Wyoming as their North American training base. Join us for Evanston's Olympic Celebration - Click Here for a Schedule Click here to view a bobsled in action.

32. Bobsled - Winter Olympics - CBS Sportsline bobsled news from the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/olympics/nagano98/bobsled/index.html

What was the biggest bobsled story in Nagano? Canada, Italy share two-man gold Germany's four-man dominance Brian Shimer goes medal-less

33. Usolympicteam.com The USOC's general bobsled information webpages. http://www.usolympicteam.com/sports2/bb/az_news.cfm?spID=7

34. Winter Olympics - 2002 bobsled. Driver The person who sits in the front of the bobsled andsteers. Usually the first person to enter the sled at the start. http://cfapp.rockymountainnews.com/winterOlympics02/index.cfm?view=sportevents&e

35. Canadian Sports Hall Of Fame Great Canadian Bobsleigh athletes. http://www.inforamp.net/~cshof/sport/bobsled.htm

36. Winter Olympics - 2002 bobsled EVENTS (all times MST). Saturday, Feb. 16, 300 pm, 2Man Runs 1 2. Sunday, Feb. BY SPORT. ALPINE SKIING, BIATHLON, bobsled, CROSS-COUNTRY, CURLING. http://cfapp.rockymountainnews.com/winterOlympics02/scheduleBobsled.cfm

BOBSLED EVENTS (all times MST) Saturday, Feb. 16 3:00 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17 Tuesday, Feb. 19 3:30 p.m. 2-Woman: Final Friday, Feb. 22 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 2:30 p.m. BY SPORT ALPINE SKIING BIATHLON BOBSLED CROSS-COUNTRY ... SPEEDSKATING BY DATE SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 2002 © The E.W. Scripps Co.

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38. ABBSL - Brazilian Bobsled, Skeleton And Luge Association http://www.abbsl.org/

39. Jamaica Bobsleigh Team, Jamaica Bobsled Photos of Jamaican Bobsleigh Team. http://www.jamaicans.com/bobsled/index.htm

Bulletin Boards Find an Old Friend Free Email Shopping ... Calendar of Events Jamaican Bobsleigh Home The Jamaican Bobsleigh team Buy our Jamaicans.com Bobsled T-shirt Now!!! Fourteen years ago the first Jamaican Bobsleigh team made history in the Calgary Olympics Winter Games. They warmed the hearts of many worldwide in their first attempt at Olympic glory and was even immortalized in the popular Walt Disney movie "Cool Runnings". Since then the team has been a mainstay in the Winter Olympics and now have their eyes focused on bringing back a medal to Jamaica. In the first games (1988) the team was seen as a novelty as they had many technically difficulties, injuries and crashes. In the second games (1992) the team had drastically improved. They had practiced hard for 4 years and were confident and focused. The 4-man team came in 14th ahead of the US, French, Russian and Italians teams. This was just the beginning. In the 2-man event the Jamaican team shocked the world by beating the Swedish national champions and coming in 10th place. The team has continued to improve and took in 2000, and took gold at the World Push Championships in Monte Carlo in three events and posting the fasted start time at the World Cup.

40. Rocky Mountain News: Bobsled Luge Skeleton Who did what in bobsled Going out in a blaze of glory, fivetime American OlympianBrian Shimer posted the fastest time on the final run of his career to http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/bobsled_luge_skeleton/0,1299,DRMN_271,00.h

name = 'rmnmainwindow'; Classifieds Autos Jobs Homes ... Ad Search Search site for: Home News Sports Business ... Speedskating Sports columnists Dave Krieger and Bernie Lincicome answer readers' e-mails while in Salt Lake City. Click here Photography Slide shows updated daily. Click here Video Tour 2002 Olympic venues. Click here Audio Tips on venues, lodging, transit. Click here o photos Virtual reality photography. Click here Torch route An interactive map of the 2002 Olympic torch route. Click here Event guide Learn more about the Winter Olympic sports. Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsled Cross-country skiing ... Speedskating Venues: Utah Olympic Park Daily results More about: Bobsled, Luge, Skeleton Who did what in: Bobsled Going out in a blaze of glory, five-time American Olympian Brian Shimer posted the fastest time on the final run of his career to claim the bronze medal in the four-man. The United States had not medaled in bobsled since 1956, and Shimer had missed the bronze in Nagano by a heart-breaking .02 second. Who did what in: Luge Italy's Armin Zoeggeler set the track record on three of his four runs to beat Hackl by .329 second in the men's singles. Markus Prock, a 37-year-old Austrian who has long been in Hackl's shadow, remained there. He finished .014 second behind the German for a bronze medal. Who did what in: Skeleton Jim Shea Jr., as a third generation Olympian, could be considered American athletic aristocracy. After campaigning long and hard to get skeleton into the Salt Lake Games, he wins the gold medal in the feel-good story of the Games.

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