Gold in boxing, then gold in bobsleighSourced
Olympic gold in boxing.
Twelve years later, gold on ice.
American Eddie Eagan won light-heavyweight boxing gold at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. At the 1932 Winter Games, he took gold in four-man bobsleigh. He remains the only person to win Summer and Winter gold in different events.
From the boxing ring
to an icy track.
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