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Bears with Olympics ties
With Bears linebacker Robert Quinn's sister, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, winning an Olympic gold medal in the women's 100-meter hurdles Sunday night, take a look at other current and former members of the organization who have ties to or competed in the Olympic Games.

Robert Quinn
Quinn's sister, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, won gold in the women's 100-meter hurdles at the Tokyo Games. She set an Olympic record time in the process and became just the second athlete to win a gold medal while representing Puerto Rico in the Olympics.

Marquise Goodwin
The speedy receiver represented the United States at the 2012 Summer Games as a long jumper. He competed in the event at the Olympic Trials this summer but did not qualify for the Tokyo Games.

Walter Payton
The Hall of Fame running back never competed in the Olympics, but he did carry the Olympic torch through Chicago on May 24, 1984 ahead of that summer's Games in Los Angeles. Before receiving the torch, Payton quipped: "I'd just like to say I hope I don't drop it."

Jenn Gibson
The Bears' sports science coordinator and dietician spent time as a senior sport dietician and applied physiologist with the United States Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, working primarily with combat athletes, before coming to Chicago in 2015.

Willie Gault
The Super Bowl champion receiver, who set SEC track and field championships records while at the University of Tennessee, qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team and would have participated in the Summer Games in Moscow had the United States not boycotted the event.

Mitch Unrein
The former defensive lineman's wife, Corey Cogdell-Unrein, won bronze medals in women's trap shooting at the 2008 and 2016 Summer Games. She also competed in the 2012 Summer Games in London.

Jack Torrance
Torrance spent 15 games at tackle with the Bears from 1939-40. Before his time in the NFL, he broke the world record in shot put multiple times in 1934 before competing in the event at the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, where he placed fifth.

Clyde Emrich
The Bears' long-time strength and conditioning coach, whom the weight room at Halas Hall was named after, competed in the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki as a weightlifter, placing eighth.

Lawrence Okoye
Okoye has represented Great Britain in the discus event at the 2012 and 2020 Summer Games. He spent time on the Bears' practice squad during the 2016 season.

Bob Pickens
Pickens, an Evanston native who played linebacker for the Bears from 1967-69, represented the United States as a wrestler during the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo.

John Capel
Capel was selected in the 7th round (208th overall) by the Bears in the 2001 NFL Draft. Following his time in the NFL, he won the 200-meter race at the 2000 U.S. Olympic trials before finishing eighth in the event at the Summer Games in Sydney.