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When news broke on Sunday that the Jamaican team had qualified for the Olympics for the first time in over 10 years, team member Winston Watt set up a PayPal account to raise at least $40,000 to help pay for travel expenses. Soon, the online crowdfunding began in earnest.
One of the buzziest campaigns was the $30,000 raised through Dogecoin, the meme-based digital currency that started as a joke in late 2013.
However, the largest fundraising effort has been through CrowdTilt, where people have contributed more than $125,000 so far, sky-rocketing past the team's $80,000 goal.
This several-day saga could make an interesting, Digital Age followup to the 1993 film "Cool Runnings," based on the Jamaican bobsled team's Olympics journey in 1988.