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Good morning and welcome to kid news.

I'm Tori.

Today is Thursday, January 20th, 2022.

And we begin with a country with year round tropical temperatures, once again sending

bobs letters to the Winter Olympics.

Team Jamaica first competed in the twisty ice track event in 1988, with its four-man team

inspiring the popular feel-good film, Cool Runnings.

Since then, the nation's participation in the sport has been spotty, which isn't too

surprising considering that temps in the coldest month of the year, January, hover in

the mid-80s.

It rarely snows there, even at the highest peaks, which makes training a huge challenge.

He wrote out their COVID quarantine in England where the team's pilot, Sean Wayne Stevens,

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