Tuesday 27 July, 2021
While the Jamaicans were creating history by creating an Olympic bobsleigh team, there was something very similar happening at home in Ireland.
The news comes 30 years after the Caribbean nation’s men team achieved a similar feat — spawning the 1993 film ‘Cool Runnings’.
Find out if you know your Coach Gordon Bombay from Coach Tony D’Amato.
They will compete at next year’s games in Pyeongchang after crowd-funding $150,000.
Forget Rocky and Chariots of Fire – these tunes are truly iconic.
The 34-year-old is joined by fellow Olympic runner Ryan Bailey.
“You dead, man?” “Yeah, man. RTÉ Player’s killing me.”
“You dead, man?” “Yeah, man. RTÉ Player’s killing me.”
“A line went through my head from the old song… ‘Gone are the dark clouds that had me down, it’s going to be a bright, bright sunshiny day’.”
Giving a whole new meaning to: “He’d sleep through anything”.
Whoever you are, we’re sure Irv Blitzer will be proud of you.
‘Helmets, spikes, lycra suits, everything is somewhere between JFK and Sochi.’
We’ve got the telly for you no matter what you’re up to this weekend.
Get on up, its bobsled time!
Somebody get the lucky egg out.
Jamaica we have a bobsled team.
The annual Winter Classic took place yesterday.
Gary Thornton was more relieved than anything else to finish the icy course last week.
He died 19 years ago today.
But the hurdler still won a medal at Lake Placid.
Derval O’Rourke finished second in the 60m hurdles final at the Indoor Classic Meet in Vienna last night.
