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...Eric Heiden, Olympic speed skater: "People ask me to give speeches. I'm 21 years old. What can I tell anybody...
...Judy [his sister] was still going with Rick. He thought that was fantastic." Kevin asked about his hometown girlfriend Donna, and confided that he had an Iranian girlfriend too. Mrs. Timm admitted to reporters that she did not know how Donna would take that news. "He knew about Eric Heiden's five gold medals," she said. "He did not know about the Oak Creek basketball team winning the state championship. He was overjoyed and thrilled...
...Olympics took up two weeks of my time, and caused tears, laughs, tensions and above all excitement. I truly felt the patriotic joy that all Americans are supposed to have. Now that the Games are over, I will miss my gorgeous hockey team, incomparable Ingemar Stenmark and incredible Eric Heiden. I wasn't there, but I have new friends and heroes...
...Winter Olympics turned Eric Heiden into a golden apotheosis to Americans, the Swedes had long since made a national hero of Ingemar Stenmark, an eerily perfect slalom racer who is as popular at home as Bjorn Borg, the tennis champion. At 23, Stenmark has won the World Cup three times. Before Lake Placid, he had taken 14 World Cup giant slalom races in a row while competing against the best racers in the world-a record as awesome in its own way as Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941. In some ways, Stenmark is the Alpine...
...figure skating, there were occasional dazzling moments, but much of it was disappointing. At Lake Placid, the ice belonged to Heiden and the hockey players...