Team Jamaica blazing through the competition in track at the Olympics isn’t a surprising sight. But how about that Jamaican hockey team?
Wait. What?
Yeah mon. You read that right.
Team Jamaica is looking to field an ice hockey team at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and they’re off to a great start.
At this year’s Amerigol LATAM Cup, the 2019 LATAM Cup champions were so stacked that organizers asked them to play exhibition games against all six Division I teams instead of taking part in the regular tournament.
The team “was too strong to compete against,” said tournament organizer president, Juan Carlos Otero,
The Jamaican Olympic Ice Hockey Federation (JOIHF) agreed and played exhibition games against teams from Puerto Rico, Columbia (who they beat in the Finals in 2019), Mexico and Lebanon.
And won them all.
“We want to acknowledge and say ‘THANK YOU’ to the Jamaican Olympic Ice Hockey Federation for their agreement to compete in exhibition games only and forfeit their eligibility to play for the LATAM Cup Championship,” wrote LATAM Cup officials in a statement. “We have the utmost respect to the JOIHF for agreeing to this.”
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Originally posted 2021-10-25 12:45:00.
