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It's been 34 years since Jamaica made its Winter Olympic debut in bobsled at the 1988 Games in Calgary, an unlikely appearance which was later immortalized in the Disney feature film, "Cool Runnings."

It's been 34 years since Jamaica made its Winter Olympic debut in bobsled at the 1988 Games in Calgary, an unlikely appearance which was later immortalized in the Disney feature film, "Cool Runnings."

Roy Wood, Jr. of The Daily Show takes a look at some historical Black Olympians.

Former Jamaican bobsledder Devon Harris says the hit movie Cool Runnings delivered ‘powerful life lessons’ when documenting his team’s experience at the Winter Olympics. Harris, Dudley Stokes, Michael White and Caswell Allen famously defied the odds to compete at the […]

Watch correspondent Roy Wood Jr. hilariously hold forth on the Black experience on snow and ice.

The Cherokee County Sheriffs office is asking people to be on the lookout for a Shreveport man connected to a double homicide in Texas.

What are the iconic Jamaican Bobsleigh team now up to these days? What happened to the four who inspired the classic film, Cool Runnings?

This year, Jamaica’s 4-man bobsled team is back at the Winter Olympics, qualifying for the first time since 1998. The original Jamaican Bobsled team, made famous by the movie “Cool Runnings” sparked an explosion of athletes from new countries vying to compete at the highest level of sports. A member of the 1988 “Cool Runnings” team, Devon Harris, tells MSNBC's Alicia Menendez why it’s important to have more representation at the Winter Games.

“We held our collective breaths, and then we collectively exhaled, because there were there was no portrayal of smoking weed in the movie.”

Malik Yoba starred in the Disney flick based on Jamaica's 1988 four-man bobsled team.