"winter athletes" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could write, "The winter athletes competing in the next Olympics are training hard."
"We are not an alpine nation but I am very excited by the performances that we have seen this past season from our winter athletes," stated Hay.
It's summer in Lake Placid, host to the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics and now the home of an Olympic training center that attracts accomplished winter athletes from across the country — and they don't take the summer off.
One of them was as a director of Project Hope, the cultural-exchange program run by Charles Wang, the Islanders' owner, that fosters the growth of hockey in Heilongjiang, the icy province in northeastern China that provides the majority of that country's winter athletes including the Chinese women's ice hockey team the Americans will face in their Winter Games opener on Sunday.
VISITOR INFORMATION WINTER athletes train in Lake Placid year round.
We know some winter athletes exist on performance-enhancing drugs.
Those savings were used to increase financing of winter athletes and sports for the Vancouver Games.
Over 2,500 athletes from a record (for the Winter Games) 82 NOCs attended the Vancouver Olympics.
Olympic swimmers were forced to use unheated pools last winter; athletes training in one of the capital's indoor Olympic facilities, purpose-built for the Athens games, had to contend with a leaky roof.
1,470 athletes represented 37 nations.
"We're not talking about 1,500 athletes.
Nearly 5,000 athletes competed, representing 69 countries.
