Dudley Clifford "Tal" Stokes[1] (born 22 June 1962) is a Jamaican bobsledder[2] and bobsled coach.[3] He competed at the 1988, 1992, 1994 and the 1998 Winter Olympics.[4]
In 1993, Disney produced a successful feature film called Cool Runnings about the 1988 Olympics, which was a fictional story about the first time a Jamaican bobsleigh team competed in the Olympics.
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^Stokes, Dudley. "I am Dudley 'Tal' Stokes, founding member of the Jamaican Bobsled Team, Olympian and inspiration for the movie Cool Runnings. Ask me anything!". Reddit. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013.
^Phillips, Mitch (14 February 2018). "Bobsleigh: Not so Cool Runnings as 'destructive' coach quits Jamaica team". Reuters. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dudley Stokes". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
competition, he was replaced on the four-man bobsleigh team by DudleyStokes' brother Chris Stokes. Chris was a very good sprinter but had never been in a bobsleigh...
team, consisting of Devon Harris, DudleyStokes, Michael White, Freddy Powell, and last minute replacement Chris Stokes, qualified at the 1988 Winter Olympic...
by Chris Stokes, who was only in Canada to support his brother and new teammate Dudley. The two-man event took place first, with DudleyStokes and White...
team (DudleyStokes and Michael White) also competed in the two-man sled competition, completing all four runs and finishing in 30th place; Stokes and White...
3 Total Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank JAM-1 DudleyStokes Winston Watt Chris Stokes Wayne Thomas Four-man 54.41 21 54.55 22 54.80 21 2:43.76...
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Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank JAM-1 DudleyStokes Winston Watt Chris Stokes Wayne Thomas Four-man 52.50 18 52.56 18 52.39 10 52.51...
Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)) - England rugby international DudleyStokes - Jamaican four time winter-Olympian Murray Walker (Royal Scots Greys)...
Maurice Smith, decathlete, World Championship silver medallist Chris Stokes and DudleyStokes, members of the Jamaican Bobsled Team that inspired the movie Cool...
Dudley (/ˈdʌdli/ DUD-lee, locally [ˈdʊdləi̯]) is a market town in the West Midlands, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Wolverhampton and 8 miles (13 km)...
Norway. Competing in the four-man event alongside teammates DudleyStokes, Nelson Stokes and Wayne Thomas, Watts finished in 14th position in a time of...
strong sprinting ability from the Jamaican military to form the team. DudleyStokes and Michael White finished the two-man event in 30th place out of 41...
leader Michael Foot and the MP for Ipswich and prominent war critic Richard Stokes. The group employed the peace campaigner Peggy Duff and the Australian campaigner...
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