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Witness History: Jamaican Bobsled Team

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18/02/2010 GMT

Jamaican Bobsled Team

BBC World Service - Witness History, Jamaican Bobsled Team

At the 1988 Winter Olympics Jamaica fielded its first ever bobsled team.

The story of how Jamaica came to field a bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Devon Harris had always dreamed of being an Olympic athlete.  But growing up in Jamaica he'd never imagined that he'd end up being a member of a bobsled team.  He talks to Witness about the 1988 Winter Olympics.

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