<P> With funding provided by the Fitch and the Jamaica Tourist Board, training was conducted in Canada and Austria in preparation for the 1988 Winter Olympics . Sepp Haidacher was recruited as a coach, and the team began to be featured in North American media with a comical angle . An agreement was reached with the Fédération International de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing in order to allow for entrance in both the four - man and the two - man events at the Games . Once in Calgary, the team conducted test runs on a frozen lake in order to get used to the conditions, but Allen fell and was injured . Chris Stokes, who was only in Canada in order to support his brother Dudley, was added to the four - man team three days before the first run having never been in a bobsleigh before . </P> <P> The first event which Jamaica competed in was the two - man bobsleigh, where Dudley Stokes and Michael White became Jamaica's first Winter Olympians . In their first run, they finished in 34th position, ahead of the second New Zealand team, both of the pairs from Portugal, U.S. Virgin Islands and Mexico . They improved in the second run, moving up to 22nd place, but were in 31st place on the third run and finished only one place higher in 30th place during the fourth and final run . Overall the duo finished in 30th place out of the 41 teams competing . </P> <P> Following the elimination of the United States ice hockey team, American television stations needed to fill airtime and chose to focus on the Jamaican bobsleigh team in the four - man event . The first run ended poorly, as when Dudley Stokes jumped into the bobsleigh, the push - bar in the sleigh broke, resulting in the team coming in third from last in 24th place . On their second attempt, the team ranked second to last, due in part to White struggling to crouch down properly in his seat, remaining almost upright through the first corner . </P> <P> It was the events of the third run for which the team became best known . Stokes injured his shoulder prior to the race, but decided to continue with the run . The team set the seventh - fastest start for all competitors . At the turn called the "Kreisel", Stokes lost control of the bobsleigh and it careened into the wall of the track, and flipped over on top of the four athletes . The four team members climbed out and pushed the bobsleigh to the end of the track, before they carried it off . The team did not compete in the fourth run of the event, and subsequently were listed as not finishing the event and therefore were placed in the last place overall . </P>

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