Keeping the Team Alive – Fiat Partners with the Jamaica Bobsleigh

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TURIN ITALY: Walking into the Fiat Pavilion at the Sponsors Village in Torino Italy, the host city for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, International Correspondent, Oyiza Adaba was a little unsure of what she would find, given that she had not given prior request for an interview with the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team. See her complete report and photo coverage of her meeting.

Captain Winston Watts and Coach Thomas Wayne

Thomas Wayne & Winston Watts with fans

Keeping the Team Alive – Fiat Partners with the Jamaica Bobsleigh. Report by Oyiza Adaba - a U.S-based International Correspondent and a contributor to this service.

I was soon made very comfortable chatting with two members of the team standing in front of the new Fiat Panada.

Donned in their tradition yellow, black and green colours, and in their down-to-earth style, Coach of the Team Thomas Wayne and Captain Winston Watts were two out of four team members present at the stand. Watts expressed the team’s disappointment in not making the cut to represent Jamaica in this year’s games. ´We trained hard and worked hard`, says Watts, `but we just didn’t make the team´.

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THE COMPLETE PHOTO COVERAGE

Pictures By Oyiza Adaba

Strong as ever - team give Oyiza a lift

Oyiza Adaba with Thomas, Wayne Winston Watts & Fiat Reps

FULL REPORT BY Oyiza Adaba, Continued

The original team whose debut in 1988 in Calgary inspired the movie Cool Runnings paved way for the country to be seen as a force to be reckoned with. ´The team in an inspiration to the rest of us and it shows that with determination, we can achieve anything we want`.

Surrounded by fans of adults and children alike, trying to either catch a glimpse or pose for a picture, their sponsor Fiat has ensured that the rest of the world is a long way from forgetting that the spirit of the team carries on.

According to Fiat representative, the purpose of the sponsorship - which ranges from grass-roots promotional activities to TV commercials - is to show a piece of Jamaica to the rest of the world, while also promoting the new Fiat Panda

The team consists of athletes Winston Watt, Thomas Wayne, Clive Mc Donald, Wayne Blackwood, Ricky McIntosh. Watts reassured that fans would not be disappointed in their outing at the next winter games in Beijing 2008.

Other athletes representing the islands of the Caribbean in the Torino 2006 games are Bermuda’s skeleton competitor Patrick Singleton as well as 48-year-old Anne Abernathy from the United States Virgin Islands.

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