She didn't know what "Cool Runnings" was. And now she's living her own version of the story, after finally seeing the movie. "They made us watch it," Johnson said. "I had no idea what it was like." ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — It doesn't snow in Jamaica. Or Malta. Or Ghana. There's been a maybe dusting reported on rare occasions in parts of Thailand and Malaysia. And nobody thinks of Spain ...

Johnson was a gymnast when she was recruited into sliding. She didn't know what “Cool Runnings” was. And now she's living her own version of the story, after finally seeing the movie.

This phenomenon of sliding-sport dreamers might have really taken off as a novelty when Jamaica sent a bobsled team to the 1988 Calgary Olympics — a story that was turned into the 1993 movie “Cool ...