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"Over $30,000 Dogecoins have been donated to help a two-man Jamaican bobsleigh team travel to and compete in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.\r\n\r\nThe pair qualified for the iconic competition\u00A0on Saturday, but told the BBC that they would need fresh funding to cover travel and equipment costs. &amp;quot;We need about $40,000 for travel and also to buy new runners for the sled because we can't go to an Olympics with only one set,&amp;quot; bobsleigh driver Winston Watts said.\r\n\r\nThe Dogecoin Foundation, which created the humorous Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency with a Shiba Inu face, quickly set up a campaign site to raise funds and awareness for the team's plight. Over $30,000 has been raised so far, but the page is still accepting donations \u2013 so that total is likely to increase.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;These coins have been withdrawn from the wallet, converted and will be donated towards the team,&amp;quot; a message on the dogesled.net\u00A0site reads.\r\n\r\nA crowdfunding campaign on Crowdtilt, meanwhile, has raised over $22,260 since the two-man bobsleigh team qualified. Over the next eight days, the project needs to raise $80,000 in total to be successful.\r\n\r\nOne way or another, it seems likely that Watts and breakman Marvin Dixon will be heading to Sochi to compete in the games this year.\r\n\r\nCool Runnings, eat your heart out.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 dogesled.net (Via The Guardian)\r\n\r\nImage Credit:\u00A0George Frey/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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