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in the Olympics!

Then you're going to have to work

on your boxing or your cycling.

Those are the only other two sports

in which Jamaica competes.

I am not a boxer,

I am a runner.

And it wasn't fair.

It rarely is, my boy.

It rarely is.

Well, Papa, what do I do now?

Look, Derice, let it go, eh?

Let it go.

You'll have another chance

in four years.

Yeah.

Mr. Coolidge...

who is the other man in

the picture with my father?

Irving Blitzer. He's an

American who lives here.

- Unless, of course, he's

been arrested or shot.

- Excuse me?

Well, he's a bookie now.

Takes his bets in a small

pool hall just past Sandy Bay.

- Isn't that a gold medal

around his neck?

- Oh, yeah.

That lunatic was an Olympic

bobsledder who tried to get

your father to switch sports.

He had some theory about using

track sprinters to push the bobsleds.

Some ridiculous

thing like that.

Can you imagine

a Jamaican bobsledder?

And you're sure this man,

he lives on the island?

- Oh, yes.

- Mr. Coolidge, thanks a lot.

- Good, Derice.

- Oh, could I borrow this picture?

- Bring it back!

- Yes, sir. Thanks a lot, Mr. Coolidge.

- Oh, just one more thing.

- Mmm?

What's a bobsled?

That's a bobsled.

Oh. So a bobsled is

a pushcart with no wheels.

- That's what it looks like here.

- Let me see that.

All right. "The key elements

for a successful sled team...

are a steady driver

and three strong runners

to push off down the ice."

Ice? Ice?

Well...

it's kind of a

winter sport, you know.

- You mean winter, as in ice?

- Maybe.

You mean winter, as in igloos

and Eskimos and penguins and ice?

- Possibly.

- See you.

Where you going?

I'm going to take a hot bath.

I'm getting cold just thinking

about all this ice.

- No, man! You're going to be

part of my bobsled team!

- What do you need me for?

Who is the best pushcart driver

in all o'Jamaica?

- You're looking at him?

- Then you're going to do it?

No!

Hey, man, you could be famous.

You could have your picture

on a Wheaties box.

But you said "no," and that's

all right, because I don't need you.

Everybody is going to want

to be on my bobsled team!

Look, star, let me tell you

a little something, all right?

When you need something from me, you

don't have to hand me a bunch of lines.

All you have to do is

look at me in the eye and say,

"Sanka, you are my best friend.

We been through a whole heap together

and I really, really need you."

Sanka, you're right.

And you are my best friend.

- And we've been through

a whole lot together.

- Heap. Heap.

Sorry, man.

Whole heap together.

- "And I really, really need you."

- And I really, really need you.

- Forget it.

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