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Show Wednesday, January 22, 1992 The Signpost 11 Jamaicans still bobsleding, mon Associated Press Undaunted by its first adventure over the snow and ice of Calgary and the occasional crash landings that come with the territory, the Jamaican bobsled team returns next month for another go at the Olympics, this time in Albertville. Say this for its members. They don't give up easily. "Oh, no," said team captain Devon Harris, in the lilting singsong of the Islands. "We would not do that. It was not a stunt or a one-shot thing. It was a serious effort to show that a team from a tropical country could be competitive. We had to prove that. "A number of people thought we were jokers, that we would be like the Swiss playing cricket and get hammered. We had to prove we were serious." Of course, they were serious. You knew that from the reggae theme song that accompanied them through the streets of Calgary at all hours of the day and night. In part, it went this way: complainin' Jamaica bobsled, ragamuffin, Jamaica bobsled, we ruff'n tuff n. Everything cool, mon." "We be trainin', gainin', strainin' and painin', but we ain't Nothing funny about that, right? So Harris and his pals stayed in their sleds, running in sand and lugging pushcarts around on Car-ribbean concrete, then traveling to train in snow and ice in places like Calgary and Innsbruck. Seven of them will be in Albertville, where Jamaica will enter a pair of two-man sleds and one four-man team. The four-man driver will be Dudley Stokes, and as such he gets the first look at the treacherous curves and corners. He says he is delighted with his job. "I think it's scarier in back," Stokes said. "I have confidence in myself. When you're behind somebody else, it's tougher. In front, there's no time to worry." Harris, also a driver, agrees with his teammate's philosophy. He was a brakeman in Calgary, where the two-man Jamaican team finished 30th among 52 teams. And the four-man sled? "We had a mishap," Harris said sadly. That's a mishap, as in a crash. "We were going down merrily into curve 12. The driver was late getting into the corner. We went up too high on the wall and went over on our heads. We slid for 200 meters, upside down." This is not a comfortable condition and would be considered a perfectly good reason for Harris and hisbuddies to head straight for the beach back home. Instead, they made a U-turn and went back to the top of the run. "We did it again," he said. "That is the best way when you have a crash." They caught the imagination of the Calgary crowds and the reaction spread around the world. "Mostly, Jamaicans who live overseas were affected in a positive way by what we did," Stokes said. "Overseas, Jamaicans have a seige mentality. This was something for them to hang their hats on. They were very appreciative." Their goal for Albertville is to crack the top 20 finishers in both the two-man and four-man events. 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