Opinion: Snowboarder Shaun White Isn’t the Only One Leaping Between Summer and Winter Olympics

Quite a number of athletes in the Beijing Winter Olympics have competed in both the winter and summer Games.

The snowboard legend, Shaun White, attempted to qualify for the skateboarding event at the recent 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He just finished his fifth Winter Olympics on Friday. 34-year-old British athlete Greg Rutherford claimed the long-jump gold at the London 2012 Summer Olympics and earned a spot the British bobsleigh squad. His teammate, bobsledder Francesco Friedrich, competed in track and field until the age of 16. Mica McNeill, the U.K.’s top bobsledder, partners with Welsh shot-put champion Adele Nicoll.