Talk:Cool Runnings

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"While it may seem like a Hollywood sugary-sweet ending, the final scene is based directly on the real events, when the Jamaican Bobsleigh did crash and the team carried the vehicle past the finish line."

- Moved from article to here, as I have heard that they did crash at the end, but the carrying the sled over the finish is pure "Hollywood". JP Godfrey 09:56, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I read somewhere that the JBS doesn't even like this movie. I specfically remember the captain saying they never practiced in a bathtub and that "they made us look like clowns". Rattlerbrat 11:42, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"In the end, just as they were about to complete their final run and earn a top ten finish, a wheel came loose from their old sled and they overturned just meters away from the finishing line." - a WHEEL came lose? What?? --132.185.144.122 16:13, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its bobsled time! COOL RUNNINGS!" -Sanka

From IMDB Quotes.

--Geopgeop 01:00, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There are simply too many, I am trimming this section down a bit.

--Ultimate77 16 December 2006

--lame, its an article about cool runnngs have some fun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.210.120.85 (talk) 22:51, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On the Organization part of the Real-life discrepancies it says this:

A fictional sports governing body, the "International Alliance of Winter Sports" appears in the film. (In reality, every winter sport has its own separate governing body.) Also, "England" is listed on the board shown in the tavern in Jamaica, whereas in the Olympic Games, English athletes actually compete as members of the Great Britain team.

It should also be noted that on the board on the tavern scene, it says "Russia", when at the time the movie is portrayed, the year 1988, Russian athletes competed with the Soviet Union. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.17.151.155 (talk) 21:29, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• In those days many people in English-speaking countries called the USSR "Russia" in ordinary speech. The patrons of the tavern who drew the scoreboard on the blackboard were probably just following this common habit. Jess Cully (talk) 17:02, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quite true, especially when one takes into consideraton the patron's and Jamaica's history w/ various European countries 76.218.248.127 (talk) 15:54, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Real-life discrepancies section had listed funding issues. However, article that was cited (see below) says nothing about 1988 team having corporate sponsorship. It merely states that Red Stripe beer had been sponsoring them at some point, and have dropped it for about 10 years (as of the article's writing).

In addition, In this interview with Devon ‘Pele’ Harris^[1], he states that the difficulty in getting sponsorship was actually one of the few points in the movie that coincides with the reality. I quote:

Q: How closely did the movie mirror the reality? A. The movie did a good job in depicting the spirit of the team as underdogs fighting to overcome. Yes! There was a bobsled team from Jamaica. We had trouble getting sponsorship and we crashed in the Olympics in Calgary. That's pretty much it.

The following is what the article said before I removed it:

In the film, Junior of the bobsledders decides to sell his car to raise money to get to Calgary after being turned down for sponsorship. The other members also hold fundraisers, and several prospective sponsors laugh at them. In reality, the team received corporate funding.^[2]

--Spamlord (talk) 09:45, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted the recent move to

I hate to say this, but the subsections titled “Competition” and “Crash” are a total mess, as the crash (in real life) happened on the team’s third run, not the fourth as the article currently states. (They never did attempt the fourth run.) Every other source, including Wikipedia’s own article about the 1988 Calgary four-person bobsleigh competition, confirms this. The subsections in question are in need of a complete overhaul. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.31.78.250 (talk • contribs)

73.31.78.250, I see (for example, here) that their 4th run is marked as disqualified/did-not-finish. But I doubt whether this means that they didn't even try to start the 4th run, or whether this just means that they didn't finish the 4th run in proper way (i.e. due to crash they finished it by feet, not inside bobsleigh). The Jamaica at the 1988 Winter Olympics article really says “It was the events of the third run for which the team became best known” and “The team did not compete in the fourth run of the event”, but that might be a mistake there as well (not necessarily it's in the Cool Runnings). Sasha1024 (talk) 19:30, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The beauty of this event is that it was a major-international event covered by Live TV. Coverage which still can be consulted. As seen in that coverage they did indeed crash in the their third run. In real life the third wasn’t the final run though.Tvx1 10:36, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

misfortune strikes: due to the sled being old, it cannot handle the high speed and eventually one of the sled's blades detaches from a loosening screw, causing it to flip onto its side as it comes out of a turn, leaving the team meters short of the finish line.

It's been a long time since I've watched this movie, but I swear one of the other teams sabotages the Jamaican bobsled, rather than the blade coming loose on its own. Am I misremembering? 138.130.233.82 (talk) 09:56, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]