It started 
 in a most innocent way.
Sports is not restricted to 
 a country
because of its climate.
Our Olympic experience 
 has been dominated
by track and field athletics.
This outstanding 
 athlete credits Jamaica
with her first Olympic victory 
 ever.
Here comes Usain Bolt!
Storming through, he takes it 
 again!
And we've always had an 
 objective
to broaden the scope.
We have one new element that is
of great interest. 
 We have a women's team.
Back on their bandwagon,
they are very serious about 
 trying to be competitive.
Well, they're real serious!
Whatever you believe in,
don't let no one, no one 
 change that focus.
Nothing is impossible.
We do bobsleigh, and 
 we are from a tropical island.
The dream of Cool Runnings 
 has revitalised.
(FAR FROM HOME)
(6 UNLIKELY STORIES OF 
 OLYMPIC HOPE)
(KINGSTON, JAMAICA)
From the time Carrie could 
 have walked,
it was evident that she would 
 be a runner.
Carrie developed 
 beautifully as an athlete
to the point where she became
one of the top sprinters 
 in the world.
Carifta Games, gold medallist.
Doing sports, that's 
 what get me scholarships
to go to college.
That's a vehicle to get 
 out of poverty for me.
And this is me,
supposed to be me.
The great!
Every time I make plans 
 in my life,
something always go wrong.
I was unbeatable, but 
 I got hurt.
Right hamstring tore,
but I bounced back, 
 won Carifta...
..and then I got hurt at 
 the junior trials...again.
I just start to accept that 
 I'm no longer a somebody,
and that's when I say 
 to myself,
that you have a 
 lot more left in you,
you have a lot more to offer.
So I asked, what next?
And in that same moment, 
 I got a call.
He said that there's 
 an opportunity for you
to join the Jamaica bobsleigh 
 team.
Carrie's an accomplished 
 sprinter, you know.
World championship medallist, 
 World University Games.
Got into a new sport.
I want her to know that 
 you belong here
just like the next person.
She like challenges, 
 she said to me,
"Mummy, I want to try it."
So I asked the question,
who will my pilot be?
Her name is Jazmine.
Jazmine Fenlator.
Come on, here we go.
I was born and raised 
 in Wayne, New Jersey,
but I'm a dual citizen,
so I am American and Jamaican.
I started bobsleigh 
 in the fall of 2007.
Team USA had asked me 
 to come try out
and I really enjoyed 
 bobsleigh driving,
so then I just said, OK,
I'm gonna work towards 
 Sochi, then,
and be a bobsled pilot.
After the Sochi Winter 
 Olympics,
I started to just think about,
what type of legacy do 
 you want to leave?
So I decided to transition 
 back home to Jamaica.
Jazmine is a good woman,
and she loves to help people.
When I found out about Carrie,
I knew I could perform 
 immediately.
Always do the compression,
come on, let's go.
Jazmine decided to take the 
 time out
to give me all the 
 instructions I need,
and mentor me to where 
 I'm at now.
We have a lot of, 
 lot of similarities,
even though technically we 
 grew up completely different.
She's somebody who's just 
 like me.
A true-born Jamaican, 
 she's a true Jamaican.
Surprise!
Yeah.
Slow, slow, slow, slow. OK.
(PARK CITY, UTAH)
So we just came off of two 
 races in Calgary, Canada,
and then drove our equipment
and the whole team down here to 
 Park City.
This is more of a home track 
 for me.
I learned bobsleigh in 
 Lake Placid and Park City.
For the Olympic Games for 
 qualification,
each circuit has eight races.
But by January 14th,
they will take the best 
 seven results,
and that's what will qualify 
 you
for the Olympic Games 
 in February.
I don't have a year or two,
because the Games is in,
what, 70, 74 days,
so I have to try to learn 
 everything,
but yet still, I'm not 
 pressuring myself.
What you're doing,
you have to enjoy what 
 you are doing,
and if I pressure myself,
I will not enjoy it.
They don't really 
 think that we're capable
of doing four man, 
 four person I should say,
four woman bobsleigh,
and we're still overcoming 
 that in the sport.
Women are doing the sport, 
 like it or not,
and women are doing really, 
 really well in competing.
We're prepping the 
 runners for race tomorrow.
It's a different me on 
 the track on a race day.
So tomorrow, race day one,
our last two before Christmas,
load sleds 11:50...
..2:05 start the women's race 
 with one,
Jaz is 10th off tomorrow, 
 Carrie.
I don't focus 
 on the athletic performance
of Jamaica bobsleigh.
I focus on the idea of 
 Jamaica bobsleigh.
A vision and an idea 
 and a dream
in the midst of very 
 unsupported circumstances...
..but the power of the 
 dream itself is so strong
that you start to put the 
 things together one by one.
We don't care if we're
the first ones to do it,
we look at it more like,
OK, we dug up the road 
 for you, now you pave.
(KINGSTON, JAMAICA)
Life is really short 
 in general,
and what do I want my 
 legacy to be when I'm gone?
I don't need people to 
 worship me,
I don't need a statue 
 built of me,
but if there's just one person,
a little girl, a little boy 
 who's like, "Oh, man,
"I saw Jazmine 
 Fenlator-Victorian
"at the Olympics, 
 and she changed countries,
"and she just pushed pennies,
"and did everything she 
 could to follow this mission,
"and she showed me that 
 people like me can do that."
That's to me, success.
(ON JANUARY 14TH, JAZMINE 
 AND CARRIE RANKED
(17TH IN THE INTERNATIONAL 
 BOBSLEIGH RANKINGS
(QUALIFYING THEM FOR THE 
 WINTER OLYMPICS.)
We're a small island,
but we have big heart.
They've done it, 
 they have secured their spot.
Today's finish means 
 Jazmine Fenlator
and Carrie Russell are 
 heading to PyeongChang.
(PYEONGCHANG 
 SOUTH KOREA)
An historical event,
as they become the first 
 female bobsleigh team
to qualify for Jamaica 
 in the winter games.
That moment you get 
 to walk into the stadium,
that's when it hits you.
I don't need people 
 to worship me,
I don't need a statue 
 built of me,
but if there's just one 
 person, a little girl,
a little boy, who's like, 
 "Oh, man, I saw
"Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian 
 at the Olympics
"and she changed 
 countries and she just
"pushed pennies and did 
 everything she could
"to follow this mission, 
 and she showed me
"that people like me 
 can do that."
That's, to me, success.
Winning a gold medal
is not necessarily our goal.
Our goal is to break 
 the barrier,
the stigma that we'll not 
 become nothing in this sport.
That the most that can 
 happen is Cool Runnings,
that's our goal, 
 to break that barrier.
We don't care if we're 
 the first ones to do it,
we look at it more like, "OK, 
 we dug up the road for you,
"now you pave."
It's the Olympics 
 at its very, very best,
Fenlator says she 
 and Carrie Russell
have dug up the road for 
 young girls to follow.
I will always be 
 disappointed in the result,
but I'm not disappointed 
 in our effort.
At the end of the day, 
 it was, sure, 19th place
which we're far better 
 than that
but it's not necessarily 
 the number,
it's no other team, I think, 
 would have survived, period,
not at all. And we not 
 only survived, we thrived,
and we showed all these 
 little girls and boys...
..in the Caribbean and 
 Jamaica and across the world
that they're stronger
than people are ever 
 gonna say to them,
and that is far bigger 
 than 19th place for me.
When I cross the line today,
everything flashed 
 back to me, like,
from 2016 September 
 until this day.
What I did today it was 
 not for only me...
..it was for my dad.
He always wanted me 
 to be an Olympian,
probably not in this sport 
 but in track and field.
And that said, 
 I want to thank you all
for making me an Olympian,
and I'm happy to be apart 
 of the Jamaica bobsled team.
Cheers!
Let's eat!
(FAR FROM HOME)
(6 UNLIKELY STORIES OF 
 OLYMPIC HOPE)
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