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# Cool Runnings

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2022
Jamaica's bobsleigh crew honoured to carry on 'Cool Runnings' legacy at Winter Olympics
Jamaica will have a four-man crew racing at the Winter Olympics for the first time since 1988.
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Feb 10th 2022, 2:00 PM
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The Irish Cool Runnings: How a group of elite rowers became Ireland's first Olympic bobsleigh team
While the Jamaicans were creating history by creating an Olympic bobsleigh team, there was something very similar happening at home in Ireland.
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Feb 25th 2018, 10:00 AM
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme! Jamaica women's bobsled team qualify for first Winter Olympics
The news comes 30 years after the Caribbean nation’s men team achieved a similar feat — spawning the 1993 film ‘Cool Runnings’.
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Jan 16th 2018, 11:42 AM
Can you identify these sports movies from one image?
Find out if you know your Coach Gordon Bombay from Coach Tony D’Amato.
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Jan 1st 2018, 2:15 PM
Nigerian women's bobsled team become the first from Africa to ever qualify for Winter Olympics
They will compete at next year’s games in Pyeongchang after crowd-funding $150,000.
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Nov 17th 2017, 4:19 PM
The top 6 alternative songs from sports films
Forget Rocky and Chariots of Fire – these tunes are truly iconic.
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Oct 30th 2016, 9:30 AM
Controversial sprinter Tyson Gay in surprise bid to make US bobsleigh team
The 34-year-old is joined by fellow Olympic runner Ryan Bailey.
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Sep 21st 2016, 9:03 AM
RTÉ Player showed Cool Runnings during the match yesterday, and people were raging
“You dead, man?” “Yeah, man. RTÉ Player’s killing me.”
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Jun 14th 2016, 10:09 AM
RTÉ Player showed Cool Runnings during the match yesterday, and people were raging
“You dead, man?” “Yeah, man. RTÉ Player’s killing me.”
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Jun 14th 2016, 9:24 AM
The best small country in which to be gay? It's better than yesterday - Enda
“A line went through my head from the old song… ‘Gone are the dark clouds that had me down, it’s going to be a bright, bright sunshiny day’.”
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May 23rd 2015, 9:12 PM
A brazen thief stole an entire ice cream fridge while the store cashier was napping
Giving a whole new meaning to: “He’d sleep through anything”.
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Apr 26th 2015, 3:07 PM
Feel the rhythm... Which Cool Runnings character are you?
Whoever you are, we’re sure Irv Blitzer will be proud of you.
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Dec 26th 2014, 11:00 AM
Speedbump: Jamaican bobsled team vow to fight on despite luggage loss
‘Helmets, spikes, lycra suits, everything is somewhere between JFK and Sochi.’
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Feb 5th 2014, 1:29 PM
Liam Neeson's talking action films... and 4 other weekend telly highlights
We’ve got the telly for you no matter what you’re up to this weekend.
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Jan 31st 2014, 5:15 PM
The internet raised $30,000 in Dogecoin to send the Jamaican bobsleigh team to the Olympics
Get on up, its bobsled time!
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Jan 20th 2014, 6:00 PM
UPDATE: Confusion over Jamaican bobsled team qualifying for winter Olympics
Somebody get the lucky egg out.
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Jan 19th 2014, 4:25 PM
Jamaican bobsled team on the verge of qualifying for the 2014 Olympics
Jamaica we have a bobsled team.
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Jan 17th 2014, 4:32 PM
VIDEO: How to turn a football field into an ice rink for an NHL game
The annual Winter Classic took place yesterday.
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Jan 2nd 2014, 11:14 AM
7 essential life lessons we learned from the movies
NO CRYING!
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Sep 22nd 2013, 11:00 AM
Interview: Galway native on top of the world after North Pole victory
Gary Thornton was more relieved than anything else to finish the icy course last week.
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Apr 20th 2013, 10:00 AM
John Candy is sadly missed... here are 7 of his greatest roles
He died 19 years ago today.
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Mar 4th 2013, 9:00 PM
Track star Lolo Jones looked completely petrified on her bobsled competition debut
But the hurdler still won a medal at Lake Placid.
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Nov 10th 2012, 10:12 AM
Season's greetings: O'Rourke kicks off Olympic year in Vienna
Derval O’Rourke finished second in the 60m hurdles final at the Indoor Classic Meet in Vienna last night.
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Feb 1st 2012, 10:51 AM