Cool Runnings look stalled for Vancouver

Jamaica's bid to get its four-man bobsled into the Vancouver Winter Olympics appears to have failed.

A preliminary list of sleds that have entered the Olympics, obtained by The Associated Press today, did not show Jamaica in the field.

Officials from the Vancouver organising committee are in the process of certifying those entries. There remains a chance more teams could be added, but for that to happen a sled that has entered must drop out.

A spokesman for the Jamaican Bobsled Federation did not immediately return a call or e-mail seeking comment.

A group of Jamaican track athletes reached the 1988 Calgary Olympics and inspired the movie "Cool Runnings."

- AAP