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...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...
This happens sometimes: an athlete announces a bid for multiple medals and lays siege to the spotlight. Spitz, Heiden, Lewis, Blair. Michael Johnson with his 200-m/400-m double an Olympiad ago. "It's great to be the headliner," says Johnson, who seems relieved that he qualified to run only the 400 m this time around. "But it's very intense, an awful lot of pressure...
...This happens sometimes: an athlete announces a bid for multiple medals and lays siege to the spotlight. Spitz, Heiden, Lewis, Blair. Michael Johnson with his 200-m/400-m double an Olympiad ago. "It's great to be the headliner," says Johnson, who seems relieved that he qualified to run only the 400 m this time around. "But it's very intense, an awful lot of pressure...
...Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Kevin Costner, Walter Cronkite, Tom Cruise, Patricia Nixon Cox, Michael Deaver, Michael E. DeBakey, William DeVries, Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakhan, Kelly Flinn, Jodie Foster, David Frost, Bill Gates, John Glenn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Andrew Grove, Dorothy Hamill, Valerie Harper, Beth Heiden, Anita Hill, David Ho, Lee Iacocca, John Irving, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Kerrigan, Jack Kevorkian, Henry Kissinger, Bert Lance, Sophia Loren, James Lovell, Lori Lucas, Robert McNamara, Norman Mailer, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Morris, Toni Morrison, Ralph Nader, Mike Nichols, Edward James Olmos...
Redemption did not come, as everyone hoped, in Albertville in 1992. When Jansen lost his balance in a turn and finished in fourth place in the 500, questions, quickly followed by opinions, took form. Eric Heiden never fell. Bonnie Blair doesn't fall (last week she won her fourth Olympic gold). Maybe Dan is jinxed, hexed, doomed. Then Jansen staggered home 26th in the 1,000. See. And so, simplemindedly, it came...