From a sports psychology standpoint, Jamaica’s Winter Olympians confront a unique mental landscape. They train across continents. They adapt to unfamiliar climates. They manage funding pressures, travel fatigue, and the quiet scepticism that still lingers whenever a tropical nation lines up in a winter sport.
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Jamaica bobsled team chasing best-ever Olympics finish in 2-man competition originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Jamaican bobsled team always garners a bit of extra attention at the Winter Olympics.
Henri Rivers IV is the first of the Rivers triplets to represent Jamaica in Alpine skiing in the Olympics — so far.
THE bobsleigh team has received majority of the attention in Jamaica’s build-up to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, however young Henri Rivers IV will make history for the island in Alpine skiing — and he’s being viewed as the standard-bearer in the event.
They cooked their own food, played their own music, and had Snoop Dogg over for dinner. Oh, and they made history too.