Jamaica's bobsleigh team launches fund-raising initiative

Jamaica's bobsleigh team have launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise funds for a coach as they bid to compete at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

The national bobsleigh team which was immortalised in the 1993 Hollywood film Cool Runnings, is using the website gofundme in order to raise a targeted amount of US $60,000.

Jamaica, which first competed at the Winter Olympics in Calgary 1988, last competed at Sochi 2014 with Winston Watt and Marvin Dixon ending 29th in the two-man event. Three Jamaican pairs competed in a North American Cup two-man event in Calgary on November 11 and 12 last year.