00:00israel is the new jamaica at least when it comes to olympic bobsledding now people of a certain age
00:06might remember the 88 olympics when the jamaican bobsled team a team from a country known for sand
00:11not snow made history as the first caribbean team to compete people of a slightly different age
00:17will know that story as the plot of the movie cool runnings which i highly recommend all that brings
00:22us to israel where admittedly it does snow but not often and not in many places at any rate for the
00:282026 winter games israel is getting a bobsled team now the way olympic qualifications work is
00:35confusing it really merits a whole podcast episode on just that but suffice it to say the unlikely
00:41four-man team from israel is headed to italy in a few weeks for their own cool running story the team
00:47captain aj edelman posted on x in part quote for israel impossible is just something we do every
00:54every day and one of the teams they'll be competing against yep jamaica they qualified again too
00:58you
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