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Joel Fearon: From pizza delivery man to Winter Olympic hopeful
Winter Olympics medallist Joel Fearon has competed for Great Britain, Switzerland and Jamaica across bobsleigh and athletics
"The fastest man in the UK this year and he's not even going to the Olympics."
That was the line belted out by the commentator as Joel Fearon stunned onlookers by running the 100m in under 10 seconds – breaking one of the most revered barriers in sport.
Frustratingly, the performance came just after the cut-off date to qualify for Team GB at Rio 2016.
A decade on, the 37-year-old is at his third Winter Olympics, but his first for Jamaica's bobsleigh team, who he came out of retirement for last year.
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It did not make so much as a ripple outside its minor sporting niche, but something particularly unusual occurred in the bobsleigh world earlier this year. Upon turning up in the New York outpost of Lake Placid for their final Winter Olympics warm-up competition, Jamaica’s four-man bobsleigh team were informed they were not allowed to take part. A hat-trick of gold medals over the preceding few weeks had seen them rise too high in the world rankings to take their customary place on the second-tier North American Cup circuit. They had simply become too good.
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