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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]

Memorable quote:

"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]

Quotes

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

--Ultimate77 16 December 2006

Organization

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]

Funding

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]

Move reverted

I reverted the recent move to Cool Runnings (film), which stated: Standard naming conventions. This is not correct, as the "(film)" suffix is only used on titles for which the film is not the primary topic, per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films): "If a film does not share its title with any other topic on Wikipedia, title the article after the film's title." Pre-emptive disambiguation is not necessary. - BilCat (talk) 21:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

^ http://www.jamaicans.com/articles/primeinterviews/interviewdevonharris.shtml
^ Jamaican bobsledders race to find marketers, sponsorship, USA Today, 29 August 2004.

[1] ttp://www.jamaicans.com/articles/primeinterviews/interviewdevonharris.shtml

[2] Jamaican bobsledders race to find marketers, sponsorship, USA Today, 29 August 2004.

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 I reverted the recent move to [[Cool Runnings (film)]], which stated: Standard naming conventions. This is not correct, as the "(film)" suffix is only used on titles for which the film is not the primary topic, per [[WP:NCF#From other topics|Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films)]]: "If a film does not share its title with any other topic on Wikipedia, title the article after the film's title." Pre-emptive disambiguation is not necessary. - [[User:BilCat|BilCat]] ([[User talk:BilCat|talk]]) 21:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
-== Yul Brenner ==
-Yul Brenner is not one of the characters. There's a line about one of the characters looking like him. [[User:Andjam|Andjam]] ([[User talk:Andjam|talk]]) 13:21, 26 March 2010 (UTC)