This phenomenon of sliding-sport dreamers might have really taken off as a novelty when Jamaica sent a bobsled team to the ...

It's Not Just Jamaica With a 'Cool Runnings' Story. There Are Sliders From All Over the World Now LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — It doesn’t snow in Jamaica. Or Malta. Or Ghana. There’s been a ...

Johnson was a gymnast when she was recruited into sliding. She didn't know what “Cool Runnings” was. And now she's living her own version of the story, after finally seeing the movie.