--- title: Jamaica First-Ever Women's Bobsled Team Is an internet Hit description: Cool runnings indeed canonical: https://time.com/5168406/jamaica-bobsled-team-internet-reactions/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-21T18:28:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:47.764Z og:title: The Internet Won't Give Up on the Jamaican's Bobsled Team og:description: Cool runnings, indeed og:url: https://time.com/5168406/jamaica-bobsled-team-internet-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb00f88f66a2b854b/69892869fb4eacb861895c72/gettyimages-922058582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4541 og:image:height: 2554 og:image:alt: BOBSLEIGH-OLY-2018-PYEONGCHANG og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Won't Give Up on the Jamaican's Bobsled Team twitter:description: Cool runnings, indeed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb00f88f66a2b854b/69892869fb4eacb861895c72/gettyimages-922058582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Won't Give Up on the Jamaica's First Women's Bobsled Team > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 21, 2018 6:28 PM UTC  Jamaica's Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian and Jamaica's Carrie Russell compete in the women's bobsleigh heat 4 final run during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang. / AFP PHOTO / Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) Jamaica's Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian and Jamaica's Carrie Russell compete in the women's bobsleigh heat 4 final run during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang. / AFP PHOTO / Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) MARK RALSTON—AFP/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 21, 2018 6:28 PM UTC Jamaica didn’t make it to the podium on Wednesday at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but that hasn’t stopped the internet from cheering for the squad nonetheless. Jamaica is known for many things—sun, sand, blue water. Snow is not one of them. But Jamaica still sends bobsled teams to the [Winter Olympics](http://time.com/5142825/pyeongchang-olympics-opening-ceremony-america-korea/). Thirty years after the four-man Jamaican bobsled team debuted at the Olympics in Calgary, Canada—and inspired the movie [_Cool Runnings_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106611/)—Jamaica sent Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian and Carrie Russell to Pyeongchang to continue the island’s bobsledding legacy. Russell’s and Fenlator-Victorian’s journey to become the first Jamaican women to compete in the Winter Games has not been easy—and the internet has been rapt at the unfolding drama. Last week, their coach Sandra Kiriasis, a two-time Olympic medalist, [abruptly quit the team](http://time.com/5160243/jamaica-bobsled-coach/) taking the team’s sled with her. Kiriasis reportedly demanded payment for the sled’s use when she left, which [the Jamaican Bobsled Federation declined](http://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-olympics/43058774), according to the _BBC_. That left the team without a sled—until [a beer company stepped in](http://time.com/5163841/red-stripe-gives-jamaica-bobsled-olympics/). In what can only be described as an internet fairy tale, Jamaican beer company Red Stripe tweeted that they would come to the team’s rescue and sent them a new sled, just in time for the team to compete in their first scheduled training run. > [](https://twitter.com/RedStripeUSA/status/964169363854151680) When the team took to the bobsled track to compete in the two-woman portion of the Olympic competition on Tuesday, the internet couldn’t handle it. > [](https://twitter.com/Certainium/status/966289979004542976) > [](https://twitter.com/Soulsis7/status/966287884801204224) > [](https://twitter.com/RabidRatt/status/966125047889965056) > [](https://twitter.com/srmmichael/status/966124977761202177) > [](https://twitter.com/adriennebyard/status/966123413411688448) > [](https://twitter.com/lanacle/status/966123551362252800) > [](https://twitter.com/MaryBethMath/status/966122642016227328) > [](https://twitter.com/LloydGSR/status/965925929057845248) The team finished [17th on Tuesday](https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/jamaican-women-join-bobsled-party-1st-olympic-run) and second from the bottom at [Wednesday’s women’s contest](https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018/results/en/bobsleigh/results-women-fnl-000300-.htm) at the Olympic Sliding Centre, but that didn’t deter the excitement. > [](https://twitter.com/ItsDanaeReally/status/966348809394671616) > [](https://twitter.com/MarkieMulchay/status/966345098798739456) > [](https://twitter.com/Monica%5FHanukkah/status/966324448147144706) > [](https://twitter.com/MiraCristine/status/966301016936370177) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5168406/jamaica-bobsled-team-internet-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5168406/jamaica-bobsled-team-internet-reactions/"},"headline":"The Internet Won't Give Up on the Jamaica's First Women's Bobsled Team","datePublished":"2018-02-21T18:28:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:47.764Z","description":"Cool runnings, indeed","url":"https://time.com/5168406/jamaica-bobsled-team-internet-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb00f88f66a2b854b/69892869fb4eacb861895c72/gettyimages-922058582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb00f88f66a2b854b/69892869fb4eacb861895c72/gettyimages-922058582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BOBSLEIGH-OLY-2018-PYEONGCHANG","caption":"BOBSLEIGH-OLY-2018-PYEONGCHANG","creditText":"MARK RALSTON—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5168406/jamaica-bobsled-team-internet-reactions/","name":"The Internet Won't Give Up on the Jamaica's First Women's Bobsled Team"}}]}] ```