What happened to the Jamaican Bobsled team?
When American businessmen, George Fitch and William Maloney, decided to found the Jamaican Bobsled Team, they took a gamble. Jamaica is a tropical island and had never sent a team to the Winter Olympics, and bobsledding was virtually unknown to the island residents. However, Jamaica is known as a hotbed of talent in track events. The idea for the bobsled team reportedly came from watching a pushcart derby in which team members pushed a metal cart through the streets of Kingston. The similarities between the two events were intriguing to Fitch and Maloney, so they formed a partnership to introduce a new presence in the Olympic Bobsledding events. Bobsledding competition is a team sport. To win, team members learn to explode at the starting line like sprinters and a good driver must be trained to steer the precarious course, so the decision was made to recruit sprinters. The idea was rejected by the top level sprinters from Jamaica, so Fitch and Maloney approached Colonel Ken Barnes to s
When American businessmen, George Fitch and William Maloney, decided to found the Jamaican Bobsled Team, they took a gamble. Jamaica is a tropical island and had never sent a team to the Winter Olympics, and bobsledding was virtually unknown to the island residents. However, Jamaica is known as a hotbed of talent in track events. The idea for the bobsled team reportedly came from watching a pushcart derby in which team members pushed a metal cart through the streets of Kingston. The similarities between the two events were intriguing to Fitch and Maloney, so they formed a partnership to introduce a new presence in the Olympic Bobsledding events. Bobsledding competition is a team sport. To win, team members learn to explode at the starting line like sprinters and a good driver must be trained to steer the precarious course, so the decision was made to recruit sprinters. The idea was rejected by the top level sprinters from Jamaica, so Fitch and Maloney approached Colonel Ken Barnes to s
