Winter Olympics 2018: Emotional Fenlator-Victorian ready to inspire for Jamaica
Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian, who competed for the USA at Sochi 2014, will represent Jamaica, her father's homeland, in Pyeongchang.
Jamaica's Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian is ready to inspire a generation of her compatriots at the Winter Olympics by showing the world to "embrace diversity".
The bobsleigh driver, who was part of the United States team at Sochi 2014, will compete for her father's homeland in Pyeongchang.
The presence of a Jamaican bobsleigh team in South Korea evokes memories of the country's four-man outfit taking part in Calgary 1988, which provided the inspiration for the film Cool Runnings.
Fenlator-Victorian took great pride in marking the 30th anniversary of that Games in Canada and wants to make her own history this year.
"I grew up with the movie, 1994 it came out, Cool Runnings," she said.
"For us we look at that 30-year anniversary as something extremely special just like it's something when your grandparents have their 50th wedding anniversary, it's a pretty momentous thing and we consider ourselves bobsleigh and skeleton family.
"We're on the road for a very long time, we look at the history of our federation and the forefathers before us that laid the foundation for all of us, including Anthony [Watson] in skeleton, to be here to make another historic moment, so it feels very special and we look forward to build on the legacy that they started and create our own."
Speaking about her move to represent Jamaica, she became emotional, adding: "My parents instilled in me to embrace diversity. That's why I came back home, it's important for me that little girls and little boys see someone that looks like them, talks like them, has the same culture as them, has crazy curly hair and wears it natural, has brown skin.
"When you grow up and you don't see that you feel like you can't do that and that's not right. Coming back home to Jamaica, I wanted my people to see that they could do it. Now they see their fellow Jamaicans in the Winter Olympics."