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Jamaica bobsled team qualifies for Sochi Games
espn.co.uk ^
| January 19, 2014
| ESPN staff
Posted on 01/19/2014 2:06:49 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
The Jamaican bobsled team may be headed to another Olympics. The catch: It needs a lot of money, and it needs it fast.
Olympic organisers said on Saturday that Jamaica has qualified for the two-man competition at next month's Sochi Games, though it remains unclear if the fledgling squad will get a chance to race.
Funding is a serious problem, and sled driver Winston Watts told The Associated Press on Saturday that he's trying to raise as much as $80,000 in the next couple weeks to cover travel and equipment costs.
"Right now," Watts said, "we're at zero."
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To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
01/19/2014 2:15:45 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Shouldn't movie rights for a "Cool Running" sequel be a slam dunk?
Or - given that dope is legalized in snow-sport loving Colorado now - shouldn't some sort of Jamaican Weed endorsement deal be already in the works?
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posted on
01/19/2014 2:16:58 AM PST
by
Yossarian
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper
Go Jamaica!
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posted on
01/19/2014 2:18:01 AM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: Berlin_Freeper
I hear they have a SMOKIN’ team!
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posted on
01/19/2014 2:33:41 AM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Why doesn’t Obama just give them some money from his stash? /sarc
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posted on
01/19/2014 2:37:31 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
01/19/2014 3:45:11 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: dayglored
Ahnnnn!!!
That wuz too easy....
Try again...
LLOL
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posted on
01/19/2014 3:46:27 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Vendome
“Yah mahn...
Montego Bay in the early eighties was ... different. At the airport, between customs and baggage claim, I was offered “ sum smoke mahn, a little toot for the da nose mahn, acid mahn, and when all else failed, “black women,mahn?. Anyone with a car qualified as a cabbie, and they most likely had a joint the size of a Cuban Monte Cristo in the glove box.
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posted on
01/19/2014 4:12:31 AM PST
by
Artie
(We are surrounded by MORONS)
To: dayglored
"I hear they have a SMOKIN’ team!"
well..w/o funding just smokin'..
(please don't pResident 0'Choom,
he'd sign an EO to finance 'em)
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posted on
01/19/2014 4:38:01 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
To: dayglored; All
disgust!
...please don't tell pResident 0'Choom,
he'd sign an EO to finance 'em.
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posted on
01/19/2014 4:41:38 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
To: Artie
Yeah, been to those places.
They give the stuff away.
Pretty kewel people and just wanna have a good time.
No my drug.
Scotch, cigs and chicks...
Or wine, whichever they prefer...
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posted on
01/19/2014 4:52:03 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Funding is a serious problem...."Right now," Watts said, "we're at zero."Well, it's a start.
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posted on
01/19/2014 5:49:11 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Jamaica da bobsled team?
Yah man, I maka da team!
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posted on
01/19/2014 6:50:21 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Time to spark up a fatty to celebrate! /s
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posted on
01/19/2014 10:45:50 AM PST
by
Oratam
To: Artie
Montego Bay was pretty much like that in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
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posted on
01/19/2014 10:50:15 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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