Jamaica’s women bobsleigh team make it to Winter Olympics

    A women’s bobsleigh team from Jamaica will be travelling to the Winter Olympics, 30 years after the country's men’s team made their legendary appearance.

    The men made their historic Olympic debuts in 1988 at the Calgary games, which led to the making of the film Cool Runnings.

    The women’s team will be led in Pyeongchang by Jazmine Fenlator, who competed for USA as a push-athlete at Sochi 2014.

    The American-born athlete switched to join her father's native Jamaica in 2015.

    The team have good form and will be looking for a top-10 finish, after finishing seventh at December's Winterberg World Cup.

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