What happened to… the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team
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On this episode of the Global News podcast What happened to…? Erica Vella finds out what happened to the Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
On this episode of the Global News podcast What happened to…? Erica Vella finds out what happened to the Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Devon Harris always had a passion for sport and dreamed of competing in the Olympics as a teenager.
He spent his childhood in Haughton, a rural district in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, but moved to Olympic Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica.
“I describe it as one of the toughest ghettos in the world, … impoverished, violent,” he said.
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“The thing that I would say kept me sane was school. I loved school. … I loved to play and guess where I could play? At school. So I discovered sports. … The thing I loved about sports was regardless of what your situation was off the field or on the field, man, it’s my heart against yours; it’s me against you and what you can bring to the table.”
Harris said he was 15 years old when he had dreamed of being an Olympian.
“It’s 1979 and I’m 15 years old and it was a year before the Moscow Olympic Games and ABC Wide World of Sports — American TV — had a series called Road to Moscow, and they showcased athletes from around the world, different nationalities and disciplines,” he said.
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