Almost 40 years after a Jamaican bobsled team charmed Olympic viewers, the country's program is climbing the ranks and prompting hopes of winning Jamaica's first winter Olympic medal.

Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run. Photo by Nancie Battaglia. Before the Jamaican bobsled team made its world debut in 1988, its dream of Olympic glory began with a makeshift sled and an ...

but the start is half the battle in bobsled, and good sprinters have a distinct advantage. Jamaica has plenty of those. In Calgary, the four-man Jamaican team crashed in its third run and did not ...