The Jamaican bobsled team will spend three months training in B.C. (CBC)

Members of the Jamaican bobsled team were greeted by a crowd of supporters as they arrived at Vancouver International Airport Saturday.

The team will spend three months in Pemberton, 31 km north of Whistler and 158 km north of Vancouver, training for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Helping them train is Devon Harris, who was a member of the inaugural Jamaican bobsled team when it qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

The team gained international recognition because of the novelty of a such a warm country competing in a cold-weather sport.

During one of their four runs the team crashed, got out of their sled and walked across the finish line.

Harris said he still has some very fond memories from those Olympic Games.

"You know, [I remember] so many things. The moment of walking in the opening ceremonies and in that instant living my dream, [having] that chance to compete [and] being on the ice for Jamaica in the Olympics," Harris said.

Devon Harris says he hopes the team has great success at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. (CBC)

The team's success in qualifying for the Olympics was profiled in the 1993 movie Cool Runnings.

Harris said he hopes this team will have even greater success at the Olympics, and he said there's one message he'd like to pass on to the team.

"If you really believe in yourself, if you believe in your dreams and you pursue it with all your heart, which is what we did, some great things will happen," Harris said. "You'll crash a few times, but you can pick yourself up and move on from there."