'Cool Runnings' Star Malik Yoba Is Rooting For Jamaican Bobsled Team In 2022 Winter Olympics

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2022 Winter Olympics. The 54-year-old American actor appeared on Thursday's episode of , and revealed that he was rooting for the Jamaicans this year, after starring as a member of the country's 1988 Olympic team in the classic film .«After doing a movie like , you always feel like you're part of the country,» Yoba said, speaking in the Jamaican accent he used in the 1993 film. «I have to root for Jamaica.

I cannot just think about America all the time.»This year is the first time Jamaica's four-man bobsled team has qualified for the Olympics since 1998.

The event will take place during the last two days of the Olympics, Feb. 19 and 20.Yoba noted that he «always wanted» to bobsled after seeing the sport for the first time during the 1980 Winter Games.

While that dream «actually came true» in some sense when Yoba got to be a part of , Devon Harris, one of the actual members of Jamaica's 1988 team, revealed that the Disney flick didn't exactly reflect reality.«When the credits role, they say 'based on a true story.' Two words are missing 'very loosely' based on a true story,» Harris quipped, before explaining how the idea to put the 1988 team together came about. «It took two Americans who were based in Jamaica.