Jazmine FENLATOR-VICTORIAN

UNITED STATES TO JAMAICA
Previously represented the United States of America in bobsleigh, and competed for the nation at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. In 2015, she switched to represent Jamaica, where her father is from, as she wanted to help qualify the island's first women's bobsleigh team for an Olympic Winter Games. "I want to leave a mark by building something that inspires people. It's a bigger part of just my success and my career - I could really lift a nation that I have a huge tie of heritage to. I love this sport and I want to keep the diversity. I want to keep the competitiveness. I want to broaden the horizon so it's not just the same five nations always competing. The best way I felt I could contribute to that is to go to Jamaica." (Info 2018)

MR COOL BOLT
At the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Team Jamaica's participation was in peril after German coach Sandra Kiriasis left her position after a demotion, threatening to take the team's sled with her. Jamaican beer Red Stripe stepped up with the funding to purchase the sled, nicknamed "Mr. Cool Bolt" after the film "Cool Runnings" and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. (cnn.com, 20 Feb 2018; cnn.com, 16 Feb 2018; reuters.com, 18 Feb 2018; Info 2018)

ON DIVERSITY IN THE SPORT
“It’s important to me that little girls and 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 included in different things in this world. When you grow up and you don't see that, you feel that you can't do it. And that is not right." (eurosport.com, 21 Oct 2021; insider.com, 22 Feb 2018)

DOPING BAN
In January 2018, tested positive for the banned steroid clenbuterol, just prior to the start of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Faced with a four-year suspension, she was eventually suspended for 12 months retroactively from March 2019 after the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation accepted her claim that the positive test was the result of a contaminated supplement. (reuters.com, 28 April 2019)

SISTER'S DEATH
In December 2021, she announced the death of her younger sister Angelica on social media. "I’ve been living in this between space of reality and a nightmare. My sweet beautiful baby girl, my Angel, my day #1, my heat and fierce resilient queen, my forever baby sister…I have no words to describe my feelings. I love and miss you more than words and actions can articulate. My heart has literally fallen into billions of pieces. Selfishly I’m so angry for you leaving me. I wanna ask why? But I know there is no answer for me.” (our.today, 31 Dec 2021)

HER MENTAL STATE AT BEIJING 2022
“I’m barely treading water. And if I’m treading water today, it’s an amazing day, because on a constant basis I wake up and I feel like I’m drowning. I feel like every time I come up to gasp for air, someone is pushing my head down. I’m embracing that it’s okay to feel like that and embracing that baby steps are big steps...Right now is definitely the hardest time in my life, and that’s no exaggeration. I would be lying if I said I don’t cry every day. I would be lying if I said it didn’t take a lot for me to keep training right now. We just take one step forward at a time.” (nj.com, 31 Jan 2022)

CAS APPEAL
Filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in February 2022 to recalculate "the point rankings for Beijing 2022 based only on races that actually occurred, and without retroactively double counting any races", an amendment that would have allowed her to compete in the two-woman event at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Fenlator-Victorian requested that France, who had taken the final quota spot - just ahead of the Jamaican team - still be allowed to compete in the event. On 6 February 2022, CAS denied her appeal. (insidethegames.biz, 8 Feb 2022)

RETIREMENT
Will retire after the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. (usatoday.com, 9 Feb 2022)

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At Pyeongchang 2018, she and brakewoman Carrie Russell were the first Jamaican women's bobsleigh team to compete at an Olympic Winter Games. They also represented Jamaica at its first World Cup event in December 2017 (Winterberg). In January 2017, the pair won Jamaica's first North American Cup medal, a bronze in Lake Placid.

Competed at Sochi 2014 (representing USA) with brakewoman Lolo Jones, finishing 10th in the two-woman. At PyeongChang 2018, competing for Jamaica, she placed 18th with Carrie Russell.

In three World Championships appearances (2012, 2013, 2015), all her results are in the top-10, with a best of fourth (2012 team), and sixth in two-woman in 2015.