OlympicTalk · Nov 15, 2016
Jamaica bobsled team helped out after being stranded in Calgary
The Jamaican bobsled team was back in Calgary, nearly 29 years after its Winter Olympic debut there, but this time they were stranded on the side of the road on Saturday.
The Jamaican team’s rental van broke down en route to its first competition of the season at the 1988 Olympic track.
From CBC:
Two new members of the team who had never left Jamaica prior to this adventure drove the now-dead van all the way from New York City before its inglorious ending on a busy city roadway.
A stranger stopped to help, transporting members of the 12-person team from the side of the road to the venue not once but twice, according to Canadian media.