--- title: Sochi Winter Olympics 2014: Jamaica Bobsled Team Comes in Last description: The Sochi games are the bobsled team's first Olympics appearance since 2002 canonical: https://time.com/8274/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-jamaica-bobsled-last/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-19T16:58:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:25:47.812Z article:section: World og:title: Sochi Winter Olympics 2014: Jamaica Bobsled Team Comes in Last og:description: The Sochi games are the bobsled team's first Olympics appearance since 2002 og:url: https://time.com/8274/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-jamaica-bobsled-last/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9de598bc7887be3/698682b855a85942dfa7f6ad/jamaica-bobsled-team-last-place.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jamaica's Winston Watts and Marvin Dixon speed down the track during the two-man bobsleigh event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sochi Winter Olympics 2014: Jamaica Bobsled Team Comes in Last twitter:description: The Sochi games are the bobsled team's first Olympics appearance since 2002 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9de598bc7887be3/698682b855a85942dfa7f6ad/jamaica-bobsled-team-last-place.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jamaican Bobsled Team Slides Into Last Place by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Feb 19, 2014 4:58 PM CUT  Jamaica's Winston Watts and Marvin Dixon speed down the track during the two-man bobsleigh event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, at the Sanki Sliding Center in Rosa Khutor February 16, 2014. Jamaica's Winston Watts and Marvin Dixon speed down the track during the two-man bobsleigh event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, at the Sanki Sliding Center in Rosa Khutor February 16, 2014.Fabrizio Bensch—Reuters by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Feb 19, 2014 4:58 PM CUT The storied Jamaican bobsled team that inspired the 1993 film _Cool Runnings_ slid into last place Monday after three heats of the two-man bobsled at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The two-man team, made up of 30-year-old Marvin Dixon and 46-year-old Olympic veteran Winston Watts, was technically 29th out of 30 teams after three heats, and the only team behind Jamaica was the Serbian squad, which did not start the race. With a time of 1:57.23, they are a full 4.41 second behind the leading Russian pair. The team first appeared in the 1988 Calgary Games, but hadn’t qualified since the 2002 Games before qualifying for the Sochi games. They’ve attracted a lot of attention this year, partially because of the novelty of hailing from a subtropical climate, as well as the 1993 classic Disney film. And if Jamaica’s performance in Monday’s qualifying bobsled rounds didn’t get the team noticed, maybe dance moves will suffice: > [](https://twitter.com/lolojones/status/433652030851514368) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/8274/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-jamaica-bobsled-last/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/8274/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-jamaica-bobsled-last/"},"headline":"Jamaican Bobsled Team Slides Into Last Place","datePublished":"2014-02-19T16:58:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:25:47.812Z","description":"The Sochi games are the bobsled team's first Olympics appearance since 2002","url":"https://time.com/8274/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-jamaica-bobsled-last/","keywords":["olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9de598bc7887be3/698682b855a85942dfa7f6ad/jamaica-bobsled-team-last-place.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9de598bc7887be3/698682b855a85942dfa7f6ad/jamaica-bobsled-team-last-place.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jamaica's Winston Watts and Marvin Dixon speed down the track during the two-man bobsleigh event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics","caption":"Jamaica's Winston Watts and Marvin Dixon speed down the track during the two-man bobsleigh event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics","creditText":"Fabrizio Bensch—Reuters","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":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/olympics/","name":"olympics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/8274/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-jamaica-bobsled-last/","name":"Jamaican Bobsled Team Slides Into Last Place"}}]}] ```