With her victory in the snowboarding giant slalom on Saturday Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic joined the short list of athletes who have won medals in two different disciplines in the same Olympic Games. She also won the gold medal in super-G.
But no matter how impressive her accomplishments, she has a way to go to surpass Walter Winans, a forgotten American Olympian who was one of the great renaissance men of his time.
Winans won a gold medal in shooting in London in 1908, then won a silver in Stockholm in 1912. But he also won a gold medal that year in a different event entirely.