The Jamaican women bobsled team of driver Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian and brake woman Carrie Russell completed their Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics campaign in 19th pace out of 20 teams with a total of 3:25.94. Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images AsiaPac Clive Mason/Getty Images AsiaPac) Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images AsiaPac Clive Mason/Getty Images AsiaPac These Jamaican bobsledders are as cool as ice. It's the first ever #WinterOlympics run for the nation's women's team! #WinterOlympics https://t.co/lmErfjFIm7 pic.twitter.com/QQeoaslph1 — NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 21, 2018 pic.twitter.com/0TY4iQs393 — Jamaica Bobsled Team (@Jambobsled) February 21, 2018 Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images AsiaPac Clive Mason/Getty Images AsiaPac) Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images AsiaPac Clive Mason/Getty Images AsiaPac) Results of all 4 heats Cover photo via Jamaica Bobsled team TW
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The 13-member Jamaica College Robotics Team wins Inspire Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Relic Recovery Challenge in New York City. The Inspire Award is the top award given to teams at the FTC Championship given to the team that is the best example of all-around excellence, acts as a strong ambassador, and is the best embodiment of the spirit of the US FIRST program. The National Baking Company donated $2.6 million to the Jamaica College (JC) Robotics Club through its foundation. The robotics club has competed in the International Robotics Competition US FIRST since 2009. The annual competition challenges teams of high school students and their mentors to raise funds, design their team brand, polish their teamwork skills and then build and program industrial-sized robots weighing up to 120 pounds to play a difficult game against competitors. Read more: Jamaicans.com Photo; Jamaican Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks
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The Jamaican women bobsled team of driver Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian and brake woman Carrie Russell completed first day run with a total of 1:42.79（+1.53). Jamaican bobsled team! Cool runnings mon. #coolrunnings #PeyongChang2018 #winterolypics2018 #BobSled #Jamaica pic.twitter.com/60mfFdltab — AG (@norad93) February 20, 2018 Photo: nbcolympics.com Photo: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images AsiaPac Women’s Heat 1 and 2 Photos via nbcolympics.com
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Jamaica women’s Bobsled team of driver Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian (a 2014 U.S. Olympian) and brakewoman Carrie Russell (a 2013 World 4x100m champion in track and field) are heading to Winter Olympics Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea scheduled for February 9 – 25, 2018. Jamaica women's bobsled team's final run today that massively boosted its Olympic qualifying chances. Sled name is "Mr. Cool Bolt" in honor of Cool Runnings and @usainbolt pic.twitter.com/zL4s6u3MgZ — Nick Zaccardi (@nzaccardi) December 9, 2017
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Jamaica is in position to qualify an Olympic women’s bobsled team for the first time after achieving its best-ever elite international result Saturday. But the standings are close, and there are plenty of qualifying races left. Driver Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian (a 2014 U.S. Olympian) and brakewoman Carrie Russell (a 2013 World 4x100m champion in track and field) finished seventh in a World Cup in Winterberg, Germany. Jamaica women's bobsled team's final run today that massively boosted its Olympic qualifying chances. Sled name is "Mr. Cool Bolt" in honor of Cool Runnings and @usainbolt pic.twitter.com/zL4s6u3MgZ — Nick Zaccardi (@nzaccardi) December 9, 2017 The seventh-place finish Saturday put Jamaica 24 points ahead of Romania for the last Olympic spot, but there are plenty of races left in qualifying and 24 points can be made up in one race. Jamaica is also vying to qualify in two-man bobsled for Pyeongchang after making the Olympics in 2014 for the first time since 2002. Info via NBC Sports. Click to read more.
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Usain Bolt and Dwyane Wade went all the way back to ’98 at a nightclub in Greece Tuesday night — grabbing the mic and busting out DMX’s legendary “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” … and it was AWESOME! D-Wade’s in Mykonos for an anniversary trip — no word on why Bolt’s there — but they met up behind the DJ booth in a Mykonos nightclub and partied like they were old friends. We’re sure DMX woulda loved to have been there too … if he wasn’t on house arrest. via www.tmz.com
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