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** The qualifying sprint race has a Coca-Cola banner in the background.
** The guys are drinking Coca-Cola while they celebrate their successful bobsled qualifier.
** The guys are drinking Coca-Cola while they celebrate their successful bobsled qualifier.
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-->'''Derice:''' I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. ''(re their snickering)'' Go ahead, laugh. I wanna see who's laughing when Irv gets here.
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-->'''Derice:''' I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. Didn't one of you have the sense to know better? ''(re their snickering)'' Go ahead, laugh. I wanna see who's laughing when Irv gets here.
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* ProductPlacement: Jamaicans love their Coca-Cola, don't they?
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** Each sport in the Winter Olympics is organised by their respective world governing body, rather than the "International Alliance of Winter Sports".
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** Each sport in the Winter Olympics is organised by their respective world governing body, rather than the "International Alliance of Winter Sports". Bobsleigh's was the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT)[[note]]since 2016 called the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF)[[/note]].
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the World Cup isn't considered a major competition, most leading elite athletes didn't go in 1985 and 1989, second-stringers competed
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** Mr. Coolidge says "Let it go, Derice. You'll have another chance in four years." Everyone in the athletics world knows that four years is a hell of a time for an athlete to remain at peak, and that the Olympics isn't the only major competition. Mr. Coolidge would have said "Let it go, Derice. You'll have the Commonwealth Games in 1990."[[note]]There was also the 1989 World Cup, but in late 1987 everyone would have assumed Ben Johnson would beat Derice out to be the Americas representative.[[/note]]
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** Mr. Coolidge says "Let it go, Derice. You'll have another chance in four years." Everyone in the athletics world knows that four years is a hell of a time for an athlete to remain at peak, and that the Olympics isn't the only major competition. Mr. Coolidge would have said "Let it go, Derice. You'll have the Commonwealth Games in 1990."[[note]]There was also the 1989 World Cup, but in late 1987 everyone would have assumed Ben Johnson would beat Derice out to be the Americas representative.[[/note]]"
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In UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}} in 1988, Derice Bannock is a sprinter and wants to compete in the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames in athletics, hoping to live up to the legacy of his gold-winning father Ben. However, his competitor, Junior Bevil, trips and brings him down along with Yul Brenner (no, not [[Creator/YulBrynner that one]]) during the qualifying sprint race. The officials refuse to rerun the race, dashing the hopes of Derice and other competitors. Derice then has the idea to compete... at the ''Winter'' Olympics, in bobsledding.
Derice first convinces his friend Sanka Coffie to join him, then he finds [[Creator/JohnCandy Irving Blitzer]], a surly former bobsledder himself and old friend of his father, who reluctantly agrees to coach him and his team. Irv tries to get out of it by showing a film reel of nothing but sled crashes to a crowd of potential teammates, but all this does is bring Junior and Yul to the team. The rest of the film is about working to overcome their lack of experience, the opposition of the Olympic Committee, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer the jeering and disbelief of the other teams,]] the internal struggles within the team, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the cold weather of Canada.]]
Derice first convinces his friend Sanka Coffie to join him, then he finds [[Creator/JohnCandy Irving Blitzer]], a surly former bobsledder himself and old friend of his father, who reluctantly agrees to coach him and his team. Irv tries to get out of it by showing a film reel of nothing but sled crashes to a crowd of potential teammates, but all this does is bring Junior and Yul to the team. The rest of the film is about working to overcome their lack of experience, the opposition of the Olympic Committee, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer the jeering and disbelief of the other teams,]] the internal struggles within the team, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the cold weather of Canada.]]
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In UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}} in 1988, Derice Bannock (Leon Robinson) is a sprinter and wants to compete in the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames in athletics, hoping to live up to the legacy of his gold-winning father Ben. However, his competitor, Junior Bevil, Bevil (Rawle D. Lewis), trips and brings him down along with Yul Brenner (no, not [[Creator/YulBrynner that one]]) (Creator/MalikYoba) during the qualifying sprint race. The officials refuse to rerun the race, dashing the hopes of Derice and other competitors. Derice then has the idea to compete... at the ''Winter'' Olympics, in bobsledding.
Derice first convinces his friend Sanka Coffie (Creator/DougEDoug) to join him, then he finds[[Creator/JohnCandy Irving Blitzer]], Blitzer (Creator/JohnCandy), a surly former bobsledder himself and old friend of his father, who reluctantly agrees to coach him and his team. Irv tries to get out of it by showing a film reel of nothing but sled crashes to a crowd of potential teammates, but all this does is bring Junior and Yul to the team. The rest of the film is about working to overcome their lack of experience, the opposition of the Olympic Committee, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer the jeering and disbelief of the other teams,]] the internal struggles within the team, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the cold winter weather of Canada.]]
Canada]].
Derice first convinces his friend Sanka Coffie (Creator/DougEDoug) to join him, then he finds
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''Cool Runnings'' is a 1993 live-action Creator/{{Disney}} film VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team.
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''Cool Runnings'' is a 1993 live-action Creator/{{Disney}} sports comedy film VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team.
directed by Jon Turteltaub and produced by Creator/WaltDisneyPictures.
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The film has some goofy farce and some dramatic moments, though it might lean a bit too much toward the former to qualify as a {{Dramedy}}.
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The film film, which is [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory very loosely based on the real story]] of the first Jamaican bobsleigh team, has some goofy farce and some dramatic moments, though it might lean a bit too much toward the former to qualify as a {{Dramedy}}.
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[[TheHero Derice Bannock]] is a sprinter and wants to compete in the 1988 UsefulNotes/OlympicGames in athletics, hoping to live up to the legacy of his gold-winning father Ben. However, his competitor, Junior Bevil, trips and brings him down along with Yul Brenner (no, not [[Creator/YulBrynner that one]]) during the qualifying sprint race. The officials refuse to rerun the race, dashing the hopes of Derice and other competitors. Derice then has the idea to compete... at the ''Winter'' Olympics, in bobsledding.
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