Trinidad and Tobago was inspired to develop a bobsleigh team after watching the Jamaican team find success at the 1988 Winter Olympics, and had begun recruiting efforts. Gregory Sun and Curtis Harry were both 31 years old at the time of the Lillehammer Olympics, and were the same bobsleigh team that would represent Trinidad and Tobago at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Sun, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, was serving as a research assistant at the University of Idaho at the time. The two-man competition was a four leg race, held over 19–20 February, with two runs contested on each day. On the first day, they completed the first run in a time of 55.09 seconds and the second in 54.88 seconds. Overnight, they were in 38th place out of 43 sleds who had finished the day. On the second day, they posted a time of 55.06 seconds for their third run, and 55.13 seconds for the fourth and final run. Their final time was 3 minutes and 40.24 seconds, which put them in 37th place out of 42 sleds who completed the competition. The gold and silver medals were won by sleds from Switzerland, and the bronze by Italy.