Word: heiden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jansen fell twice. Eric Heiden won five times. And an Impossible Dream came true for 20 American boys with sticks. Did Craig ever find his father...
...cheering crowd fell into shocked silence: "I think we were all just kind of numb." Jansen's spills brought down much of the U.S. hope for a men's speed-skating medal. The team had gone to Calgary seeing a chance to replay some of 1980, when Eric Heiden took all five skating golds. But the team arrived feuding bitterly and publicly over starting lineups. When he was not named to race in the 1,000, dissident Captain Erik Henriksen filed two unsuccessful appeals with the U.S. Olympic Committee...
Meanwhile the competition has been reaching dizzying new speeds. In Sunday's race, 27 skaters broke Heiden's old record. After Jansen, the best U.S. hope for a medal had been Sprinter Nick Thometz. But following months of battling a low blood-platelet count and a recent bout of the flu, he finished eighth in the 500 and 18th in the 1,000. That race went to the Soviet Union's Nikolai Guliaev in 1:13.03. The silver went to East Germany's Jens-Uwe Mey, already winner of the 500 with a 36.45 record. Finally on Saturday...
During the 1980's, the United States has had its moments at the Winter Olympics. Few will forget speedskater Eric Heiden's five gold medals at the 1980 Games at Lake Placid, N.Y. Or when Bill Johnson, the typical ski bum, conquered the mountains at the 1984 Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia...
...American men have an Eric who will challenge. It's not Heiden, but Eric Flaim from Pembroke, Mass. The United States' strongest chance for a gold medal lies in the skates of Bonnie Blair. Blair must defeat the strong East German duo of Karin Kania and Christa Rothenburger, both 1984 gold medalists...