Former long jumper is secretly training with GB squad, aiming to be the first Briton to win summer and winter Olympic medals
“I’ve never been someone to do anything half-arsed,” says Greg Rutherford, as he revs up for the most dramatic leap of his career. “I’m coming back, and I intend to make history”. It has been three years since the London 2012 long jump champion hung up his spikes, his body beaten up and broken down. But, incredibly, the 34-year-old returned to training last year and has secretly joined the GB bobsleigh squad as part of an audacious attempt to become the first Briton ever to win both summer and winter Olympic medals.
What makes Rutherford’s story even more remarkable is that he has never sat in a bobsleigh before. But next month, Covid permitting, he will attend a team training camp in Gibraltar having been told by GB Bobsleigh coaches that he has “every chance” of making the Winter Olympics in Beijing next February.
