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Thursday, 25 April 2024

A cool challenge for Jamaican Olympic bobsleigh hopefuls

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A cool challenge for Jamaican Olympic bobsleigh hopefuls
A cool challenge for Jamaican Olympic bobsleigh hopefuls

The Jamaican bobsleigh team are used to training without ice, but with British gyms closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, they've had to improvise to keep up their strength.

Sleighing without snow Location: Peterborough, UK The Jamaican bobsleigh team are facing their latest challenge They are having to train without gyms, a bobsleigh, or ice (SOUNDBITE) (English) JAMAICA BOBSLEIGH TEAM MEMBER, SHANWAYNE STEPHENS, SAYING: "We had to come up with our own ways of replicating the sort of pushing that we need to do so we thought why don't we just go out and push the car and do some reps just pushing the car backwards and forwards." The team dreams of winning gold at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics They want to carry on the legacy of the 1988 team that inspired the film Cool Runnings

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