Bobsled teams from Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica are hopeful they can lean on their rich sprinting culture and move closer to the European powers in the sport.

Trinidad and Tobago's bobsleigh team say it is "mission accomplished" in their 'operation don't come last' as they finished 25th out of 26 in the Olympic two-man event.

A NORTH Yorkshire athlete helped Trinidad and Tobago avoid a last place finish in the Winter Olympics bobsleigh event.

Harrogate-born bobsleigh ace Axel Brown said that his experience at the 2026 Winter Olympics felt "like win".

Bobsleigh pilot Axel Brown, from Harrogate, represents the Caribbean country at the Olympics.

Bobsleigh pilot hospitalised after horror crash at Winter Olympics - Austrian bobsleigh pilot Jakob Mandlbauer had to be stretchered off the ice after a lengthy delay to competition