Cratered by potholes, the road to the Jamaican parish of Trelawny narrows into a ribbon, cutting through sugar cane fields and extending into an area that has produced some of the country’s greatest athletes. Here, mere miles apart, are the hometowns of eight-time Olympic gold medalist sprinter Usain Bolt and his former relay teammate Tyquendo Tracey.
Now 32, Tracey’s legs have taken a break from powering Jamaica’s famed relay squads and have molded into pistons pushing an Olympic bobsled in Cortina. With each stride, they’re firing the Caribbean island’s sleds across the world’s sliding tracks and into the Olympics, an international sporting theatre usually defined by the country’s summer stars and headlined by Bolt’s legacy.
