Having long had ties to Jamaica, Fitch was one of the co-founders of the Jamaican Bobsled Team for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Determined to achieve what most dismissed as impossible, Fitch's success inspired the Disney film Cool Runnings.
His grandfather George Ashmore Fitch, who came to China in 1906 to follow his father as a missionary, was serving as the head of Nanjing YMCA when the Japanese invaded.
in economics from the College of Wooster, Ohio and earned an MBA in International Business from George Washington University.
[citation needed] Fitch died of cancer on December 30, 2014, at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia.