Cool Runnings

Jamaica’s first ever bobsleigh team hire a disgraced ex- competitor to help get them to the Winter Olympics., When the Jamaican sprinter, Derice Bannock, is disqualified at the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach, Irv Blitzer, a family friend. Derice seek out Irv Blitzer, who’s won gold twice at the 1968 Winter Olympics for bobsled. However, he was disqualified in the 1972 Olympics for cheating. Despite his history, Derice convinces Irv to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. Catch a true story about the Jamaican bobsled team on their way to the 1988 Olympics., Fact-based tale about the course traveled by Jamaica’s bobsled team en route to the 1988 Olympics., Cool Runnings fictionalizes the true story of a bobsledding team from Jamaica making it to the Olympics. The tale begins when Derice Bannock (Leon), realizing that due to an accident his chances of qualifying for Jamaica’s 1988 Olympic track team are dashed, scrounges around looking for another sport for the competition. Since ex-United States gold medal bobsledding winner Irv Blitzer (John Candy) now lives in Jamaica, Derice chooses bobsledding, convincing Irv to coach the team. Derice then forms his team. He gets his friend Sanka Cofie (Doug E. Doug) to join up and recruits Junior Bevil (Rawle D. Lewis), a young man who lacks self-confidence, and Yul Brenner (Malik Yoba), a disagreeable and bitter malcontent. After setbacks and near disasters, the group jells as team members and they head off to the Olympics to compete for an Olympic spot., Family comedy, loosely based on true events, about four Jamaican bobsleighers who dream of competing in the Winter Olympics despite never having seen snow. With the help of a disgraced former champion desperate to redeem himself, the Jamaicans set out to become worthy of Olympic selection and go all out for glory., A sprinter fails to qualify for the Jamaican Olympic squad, but refuses to give up his dream. Learning that a former US bobsleigh coach is living nearby, he seizes the chance to shine in an entirely different sport, and cajoles three of his friends to join him in training for the 1988 Winter Olympics in the far less tropical environment of Canada., The Jamaican sprinter, Derice Bannock, is disqualified at the Olympic Games. He then enlists the help of a dishonored coach, Irv Blitzer. Derice seek out Irv Blitzer, who’s won gold twice at the 1968 Winter Olympics for bobsled and has been disqualified in the 1972 Olympics for cheating. Derice convinces Irv to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. Catch a true story about the team on their way to the 1988 Olympics., Fact-based tale about the course travelled by a Jamaican bobsled team., Entertaining story, loosely based on true events, of four Jamaican bobsleighers who dream of competing in the Winter Olympics despite never having seen snow. With the help of a disgraced former champion desperate to redeem himself, the Jamaicans set out to become worthy of Olympic selection and go all out for glory.