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.
Henri Rivers IV is the first of the Rivers triplets to represent Jamaica in Alpine skiing in the Olympics — so far.
Here are the latest results for Jamaica's bobsled team at the 2026 Winter Games.
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.
Bobsleigh athlete from Gwent has made history on the world stage, earning Jamaica's best-ever finish in the monobob at the Winter Olympic Games
From hurricane-scarred shores to snow-swept Olympic tracks, Jamaica’s bobsled team is proving that resilience (not conditions) define how far a nation can fly.
Bobsled teams from Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica are hopeful they can lean on their rich sprinting culture and move closer to the European powers in the sport.