At the time, it was the highest grossing live action film released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.
Contrary to the story in movie, the Jamaican team was met with open arms by the international Bobsledding teams. One of the other teams even went so far as to lend the Jamaican team a back-up sled so they could qualify.
In 2015, Sanka Coffie (Doug E. Doug) revealed he still has Sanka's lucky eggs. They were made of rubber.
This was the final John Candy film to be released before he died of a heart attack. Candy died five months later, while filming Wagons East! (1994), which was released posthumously.
According to Tommy Swerdlow, the only line in the film that he did not write was "Sanka, ya dead?". That is the only line that came from the original version of the script.