Forget the Jamaican bobsleigh team -- the Caribbean island is taking a bash at the genteel sport of lawn bowls for the first time at the Commonwealth Games.
A pair of wise-cracking best friends known as the "Reggae Rollers" are set to turn heads when they make their bow in Gold Coast this week.
Andrew Newell and team-mate Merv Edwards have created quite a stir since arriving in Australia, so much so that Jamaica's former world champion sprinter Yohan Blake stopped them in an elevator.
"Yohan Blake was in the lift today and he actually said to me and Merv, 'Are you guys the bowlers?' It was very, very cool," the London-born Newell told AFP in an interview.
"I'm in the (Jamaica) team now and I've got to pretend it wasn't a big thing," joked the 44-year-old, lamenting his failure to take a photo with Blake.
"I'm here for a couple of days so I might be able to photo-bomb selfie him or something."
"I went to my local park in London and just stuck at it ever since," he said. "It was sort of calming, like chess on grass."
"But the more I got into it the more my friends and family appreciated what I was trying to do."
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"I would have done this without 'Cool Runnings'," insisted Newell, who trains to reggae music. "But I do understand there's going to be comparisons made and I'm cool with that."
"I'm a leg-puller but we've got a job to do," he added. "I don't want to go home not winning a game. We're good enough to get to the final."
"All the Jamaican national teams have got a nickname," he said. "You've got the 'Reggae Boyz', and the 'Sunshine Girls' do netball. It just works I think."
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