Making Dreams Happen - even if there're obstacles
I LOVE the movie "Cool Runnings" - a movie that depicts marathon runner, Derice Bannock, going for his Olympic Dreams. And when the obstacle of running into other track members knocks his dreams off course, he looks for an alternate way to take him to the Olympics. He discovers an "has been" Olympic athlete who had received a metal for a bobsledding competition. There's no snow in Jamaica, but Derice (with the help of the ex-Olympic star) forms a team of members who are willing to learn bobsledding so that they may enter the winter Olympics. The show, of course, is probably only 5% accurate, if that. The real "Derice" had very little training before the Olympics. He said he saw a bobsled for the first time in September 1987 here and here It doesn't make me appr...