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Stephen Borelli, USA TODAYFebruary 12, 2026 at 11:04 AM

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It’s “Cool Runnings” revisited, as Jamaica’s bobsledders return to a second consecutive Winter Olympics.

The tropical island nation qualified three bobsled spots at the Milan Cortina Olympic games, with official training heats beginning Thursday, Feb. 12, and heats starting Sunday, Feb. 15.

Jamaica debuted in the event at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, which was made famous by the 1993 movie. The country has never finished higher than 14th in a Winter Games event (four-man in 1994, Lillehammer).

“I’m not going (to) the Games to just show up, just take part,” Shane Pitter, who captains Jamaica’s two- and four-man sleds, told the Olympics.com podcast. “I’m trying to actually win a medal, trying to make history again.”

What Jamaican bobsled teams made the 2026 Winter Olympics?

Pitter, who led the country to eight wins in the North American Cup this season leading up to the Olympics, leads the two- and four-man teams that will compete in Cortina.

Mica Moore will compete for Jamaica in the women’s monobob.

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Pitter, 26, picked up the sport four years ago.

“I didn’t know what it was,” he told the Olympics.com podcast.

He was drawn by the speed of the sport and he trains for it by strengthening the small muscles in his body through spearfishing.

Moore, 32, competed at bobsled for Great Britain in Pyeongchang in 2018. She switched to Jamaica through her paternal grandfather’s roots.

She is another former track athlete.

“It is absolutely chaos in 60 seconds,” Moore says. “You’re going to see the biggest, strongest, fastest people pushing a very heavy sled down a track.”

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