Cool Runnings

Now, imagine this! A Jamaican runner fails to qualify at the Olympic trials when a fellow runner trips and falls taking him down along with him.

But the sprinter isn't willing to go down and out. He wants to go to the Olympics come what may!

So he and his best friend make a plan to get there not as sprinters but in a new sport altogether! They plan to form a Bobsled team and go to the Olympics! Impossible? And silly, isn't it? 

Moreover, they know nothing about the sport at all. It's a winter sport and they are from Jamaica, where there's no snow at all.

But they are determined to give it a go and as they know someone who can coach them in this new funny sport.  

They contact a sportsman (John Candy) who won two Gold Medals in the sport of Bobsledding (funny name, I tell you!) and lives just around the corner in Jamaica (sounds too convenient, doesn't it). 

This sportsman is now a bookie as he was disgraced and later disqualified from the sport for cheating. 

After some persuasion John Candy agrees to coach them and they recruit two more guys and eventually become a full fledged Bobsled team!

Now this must sound like a pile of unbelievable nonsense imagined by some doped out scriptwriter. Doesn't it? 

But here's a newsflash, this movie is based on true incidents and all this presumably happened! 

And this fake team did go on to do wonders at the 1988 Winter Olympics games!


This is a 'sports movie', funny, moving and inspiring. It's very different as the sport of Bobsledding is poles apart from any other thing once must have seen or experienced. Bobsledding is funny and extremely dangerous! Watch it and see for yourself. 4 guys sitting in a long box that goes downhill sliding on ice a breakneck speed. Isn't that fun as a spectator sport? Watch it and see for yourself.      

Cool Runnings

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