Images Dated 1988

Calgary Olympics - Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh - 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics - Men's Four Training
The Jamaica team - Dudley Stokes, Devon Harris, Michael White, Chris Stokes - during the start phase in training at the Canada Olympic Park, Calgary.
It was the first time Jamaica had entered the Winter Olympics in any sport. In their third run in the competition proper their bob overturned and slid down the track with the crew members? helmets scraping the ice wall. Thankfully the team were unhurt, and the image of them walking across the finish line alongside their bobsleigh became one of the enduring sights of the 1988 Olympics. Later their story was the loose basis for the film Cool Runnings

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Calgary Olympics - Speed Skating

Speed Skating - 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics - Women's 1000m Medal Presentation
East Germany's gold medal winner Christa Rothenburger Luding (gold), with compatriot Karin Enke-Kania, who won the silver, at the Olympic Oval, Calgary, Canada.
Rothenburger won the gold medal in a new World Record, she also won a silver medal in the 500m.
Later that year Rothenburger won a silver medal in sprint cycling at the Seoul Olympics, becoming the first woman to win medals in both the Winter and Summer Olympics.
26/02/1988

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