The Sports Illustrated Olympic Daily is published in Salt Lake City and available in event venues and on newsstands for 16 straight days during the 2002 Winter Games. Here are some sights and scenes from today’s edition.

Jamaican team    BOBSLEDDING

Olympic Highlight: Finished last at the 1988 Calgary Games while charming fans far and wide with its quixotic foray into the world of winter sports

Harris is proud of the trail he and his '88 mates blazed for Jamaican athletes. Chuck Solomon

Its presence seemed a punch line, its last-place finish a foregone conclusion, but somehow the original Jamaican bobsled team -- an oxymoron on ice -- emerged as stars of the 1988 Games. With members pulled from the ranks of the island’s top sprinters as well as its military, the team was the toast of Calgary, and its spectacular, tumbling crash midway through the third run in the four-man competition only cemented the group’s status as fan darlings. "When we crashed, we were so dejected," says Devon Harris, now a corporate motivational speaker who also makes charity appearances, "but picking the sled up, pushing it back up the track and hearing the clapping, the cheering, having the crowd shake our hands made us so proud. There’s a stereotype of Jamaicans as party animals or pot smokers or Rastafarians, but we all had a real hunger to be at the Games."

Two of the bobsledders -- captain Dudley Stokes and his brother, Chris -- are now executives with the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation in Kingston, and the fourth, Michael White, works in retail and lives outside New York City. Jamaican teams have competed at each of the ensuing Winter Games, with the four-man squad finishing 14th at Lillehammer in ‘94, one place ahead of the U.S. "That’s what we worked for, to pave the way for others to succeed," says Harris. "We never doubted that we could compete at the highest level, even in a sport that was foreign to us."