Rosa Khutor: Jamaica's Olympic bobsleigh team on Thursday pleaded with their adoring fans to stop sending money to fund their Sochi fairy tale while also dreaming of converting Usain Bolt from sprint to snow. Pilot Winston Watts admitted that the Internet campaign to fund their trip had been such a success that he and brakeman Marvin Dixon feared they would be damned as greedy opportunists if they didn't call a halt.


Jamaican bobsledder Winston Watts pilots a bobsleigh during a practice run at the Sanki Sliding Center yesterday. Pic/Getty Images

"The donations were just coming on and on. We had to stop them. We've called a press conference to do it," said Watts after almost $80,000 poured into the empty Jamaica coffers with $178,000 gathered in total from sponsors and the national federation. "We just didn't want them to think that we're greedy people." Watts said that despite being the Games underdogs, his country had the world's fastest guy and he was dreaming of having Bolt on his team some day in the future.