The Jamaica Olympic Association is the National Olympic Committee for Jamaica, founded in 1936 and headquartered in Kingston, responsible for selecting and fielding the Jamaican Olympic team from a Caribbean island nation of under three million people that has become one of the most successful sprinting nations in Olympic history. It oversees Jamaica's Olympic sport federations, most prominently athletics, and coordinated the country's Olympic representation through the era of sprinter Usain Bolt, whose successes brought worldwide attention to Jamaican track and field.
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Body Type (category)National Olympic Committee 1 FAQs
What do the national federations under the Jamaica Olympic Association do?
Each federation runs training; competition and development for its own sport.
The Jamaican national federations are the organizations that coordinate all aspects of their individual sports, and they are responsible for training, competition and development of those sports. There are currently 18 Olympic summer sport federations, 2 Olympic winter sport federations and 4 non-Olympic sport federations in Jamaica. One of them, the Jamaican Olympic Ice Hockey Federation, is a non-profit organization based outside of Jamaica.
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The Jamaica Olympic Association was founded in 1936 and recognised by the International Olympic Committee in the same year.
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Kingston, Jamaica
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The Jamaica Olympic Association (IOC code: JAM) is the National Olympic Committee representing Jamaica.
Associated With: Olympic Games, Opening paragraph
It is also the body responsible for Jamaica's representation at the Olympic Games.
Governs: Olympic Sports, lead sentence, states the committee role in the Olympic movement
The Jamaica Olympic Association (IOC code: JAM) is the National Olympic Committee representing Jamaica.
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