Cool Runnings endeared the Jamaican bobsled team to viewers in the early '90s, but the real team has continued to face trouble. Though they qualified for the Winter Olympics this year for the first time since 2002, financial issues threatened to keep them at home. "We have not come close to covering our costs," Chris Stokes, general secretary of the Jamaican Bobsled Federation, told Espn.com on Monday. "We have many outstanding obligations, and we have to pay [for] three more weeks of training. We've had very lonely days when we struggled to make ends meet by borrowing equipment. Our guys haven't had the proper jackets.
- 1/21/2014
- by Alex Heigl
- PEOPLE.com
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