| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Tal  |
| Born | 22 June 1962 (age 62) Cockburn Town |
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) |
| Website | www |
| Sport | |
| Sport | bobsleigh |
| Discipline | 2-man bob, 4-man bob |
Dudley Clifford "Tal" Stokes[1] (born 22 June 1962) is a Jamaican bobsledder[2] and bobsled coach.[3] He competed at the 1988, 1992, 1994 and the 1998 Winter Olympics.[4]
In 1993, Disney produced a successful feature film called Cool Runnings about the 1988 Olympics, a fictional story about the first time a Jamaican bobsleigh team competed in the Olympics.
- ^ "Dudley Stokes - Founding member of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team, immortalised in the film "Cool Runnings"". performingartistes.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ Stokes, Dudley. "I am Dudley 'Tal' Stokes, founding member of the Jamaican Bobsled Team, Olympian and inspiration for the movie Cool Runnings. Ask me anything!". Reddit. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013.
- ^ Phillips, Mitch (14 February 2018). "Bobsleigh: Not so Cool Runnings as 'destructive' coach quits Jamaica team". Reuters. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dudley Stokes". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2018.