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Three-hundredths of a second. That's what it came down to, and the difference made Casey FitzRandolph the first American in 22 years to win a speedskating gold medal in the men's 500-meter event. "I was ready," said FitzRandolph, "But there is a little bit of luck from upstairs to end up on the right side of the three-hundredths...
...wrong side was the defending Olympic champion, and current world-record holder in the event, Hiroyasu Shimizu of Japan. It was a very big day for speedskating in America: not only did FitzRandolph capture the gold, but his teammate Kip Carpenter took the bronze. Three speedskating events down, seven to go, and already the U.S. has three unexpected medals in these Winter Games...
...FitzRandolph's story in a nutshell: he took up the sport as a seven-year-old after watching Eric Heiden win all his gold in Lake Placid. "I gave up hockey," he said. "Apparently Heiden impressed me more as a kid than that Miracle on Ice team did." The 27-year-old has been focusing on the sport ever since and says it has taken him 20 years to get where he wanted...
...Although an Olympic gold was always a goal (along with place-kicking for the Green Bay Packers), FitzRandolph says, "I didn't know if maybe time was running out." For the last three years he has spent time in Canada, training at the Calgary Oval, and last fall completely left his teammates, "his support system", to train exclusively in Calgary. It was a move, he said, that could have worked either...
...wonderful day for Carole, a great day for France." Even though the downhill was her final competitive race before retirement, Street said she wasn't at all disappointed in her 16th placing. "In my eyes and in my heart, qualifying for the Olympics felt like winning a gold medal," she said. And the country acted as though...