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Jamaica sending its 1st women's bobsleigh team to Olympics

Jamaica is sending a women's bobsleigh team to the Olympics for the first time.

2018 Games mark 30th anniversary of Jamaica's famed men's bobsleigh debut in Calgary

The Associated Press ·
Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian and Carrie Russell of Jamaica speed down the track during their first run of the women's bobsleigh World Cup race in December. The pair will likely compete together again in Pyeongchang as Jamaica has qualified its first-ever women's bobsleigh for the upcoming Olympics. (Kerstin Joensson/The Associated Press)

Jamaica is sending a women's bobsleigh team to the Olympics for the first time.

Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian, who drove for the U.S. at the 2014 Sochi Games, will pilot the Jamaican sled in the Pyeongchang Olympics next month. It'll likely be pushed by Carrie Russell, a sprinter who helped Jamaica win gold in the 4x100-meter relay at the 2013 world track and field championships.

Audra Segree was also picked as a brakeman for the Jamaican team.

Fenlator finished 11th with brakeman Lolo Jones for the Americans in Sochi. There will be 20 sleds in the women's bobsleigh event in Pyeongchang. These Olympics mark the 30th anniversary of Jamaica's famed men's bobsleigh debut at the Calgary Games.

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