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Irving Blitzer disgraced himself when putting extra weights into his team's bobsled in the Olympics, resulting in his gold medal being taken away. Years later, Derice Bannock, son of a former friend of Irv's, fails to qualify for the 100-yard sprint for the Olympics due to a stupid accident.

Cool Runnings is a 1993 American sports film directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Leon Robinson, Doug E. Doug, Malik Yoba, and John Candy (in his final film during his lifetime). It is loosely based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsleigh team's debut in competition during the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Years after Cool Runnings debuted, Fitch said about 1% of the movie is true in an ESPN interview. "What is fact is the crash, everything else is fiction," he explained. "This 'feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, it's Jamaica bobsled time', that was strictly Hollywood."Jan 18, 2022

In 2015, Sanka Coffie (Doug E. Doug) revealed he still has Sanka's lucky eggs. They were made of rubber. Actual television sports footage from ABC network covering the 1988 Winter Olympics was utilized for the film and edited into the movie.

An Olympic-sized bobsled starts around $30,000, with some reports indicating sleds can run up to $100,000 depending on the design. In Vancouver, Team USA's sleds cost about $50,000.Feb 14, 2022

At the turn called the "Kreisel", Stokes lost control of the bobsleigh and it careened into the wall of the track, and flipped over on top of the four athletes. The four team members climbed out and the bobsleigh was pushed to the end of the track by support staff while the team walked alongside it.

George Fitch - the original spark for the Jamaican bobsled team - said that about 1% of the story is true. During an ASPN interview, Fitch said “What is fact is the crash, everything else is fiction. This 'feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, it's Jamaica bobsled time', that was strictly Hollywood.”Feb 9, 2022

Sanka Coffie: Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its bobsled time! Cool Runnings!