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Jamaican bobsledders are real characters

First, you need to know the truth. This is where the movie Cool Runnings stuck to the facts:

There was a bobsled team from Jamaica.

The 1988 Olympics were in Calgary.

It was cold.

Except for that, you can write off the movie as whimsical fancy, an idea begun by the truth but certainly not married to it. The net result was a story about a team that let nothing get in its way. Especially the facts.

Yes, it was a funny movie. Yes, it had charm. Yes, it was a nice little story.

Heck, it was almost as good as what really happened.

They are back, you know. The real thing. The real team. The real joy that has always followed them down the bodsled track.

There is no John Candy character here. There never was. There is no bald slider calling himself Yul Brynner. Never was. There is no brakeman freezing off his dreadlocks in an ice-cream truck. Never was.

"That's just in the movies, you know?" The laughter of Chris (Nelson) Stokes bounces off the walls. "It wasn't a factual movie. If they had filmed what really happened, it would

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Lord Brynner

Trinidadian calypsonian (c.1937–1985)

Lord Brynner
Birth name	Kade Simon
Born	c. 1937 Erin, Trinidad
Died	1985
Genres	Calypso, Ska
Years active	1957–1970s
Labels	Erin, WIRL

Musical artist

Kade Simon (c. 1937 – 1985), better known as Lord Brynner, was a Trinidadiancalypsonian who won the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Calypso Contest in 1962. He also had a number of Ska hits in Jamaica during the mid-1960s.

Biography

Kade Simon was born in Erin, Trinidad.^[1] Taking inspiration from the actor Yul Brynner, he adopted the stage name Lord Brynner, together with the shaved head of the actor, and became a popular calypsonian in the late 1950s.^[1]^[2]^[3] He joined the West India Regiment and relocated to Jamaica, where he continued to perform, before returning to Trinidad after the collapse of the West Indies Federation.^[1] He won the Trinidad & Tobago Independence Calypso Contest in August 1962 with the aptly-themed "Trinidad and Tobago Independence", beating the likes

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Trivia

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The character name of Yul Brenner (Malik Yoba) was a parody of the name of legendary movie star Yul Brynner.

At the time, it was the highest grossing live action film released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.

Contrary to the story in movie, the Jamaican team was met with open arms by the international Bobsledding teams. One of the other teams even went so far as to lend the Jamaican team a back-up sled so they could qualify.

In 2015, Sanka Coffie (Doug E. Doug) revealed he still has Sanka's lucky eggs. They were made of rubber.

Sanka Coffie (Doug E. Doug) is a pushcart driver. In real life, the local pushcart derby inspired George Fitch and William Maloney, American businessmen living in Jamaica, to develop the Jamaican bobsled team.

This was the final John Candy film to be released before he died of a heart attack. Candy died five months later, while filming Wagons East (1994), which was released posthumously.

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