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...addition to his strength, discipline and sheer natural speed, Heiden has another edge: he is a shrewd competitor. Speaking of the 10,000, his final test, he told TIME Associate Editor B.J. Phillips last week: "It is a strategy race. You have your intervals [planned times for each lap] and you try to keep to them but, within that, there are things you can do to work on the other guy. You can try to get behind him for a few moments and let him break the wind for you, like race-car drivers do. Or you can pick...
When the skaters warmed up for the 10,000-meter race that would be Heiden's chance for a fifth gold medal, the arena was jammed with spectators. Along Main Street, fans who had not been able to get tickets climbed homemade ladders in order to peer over the fencing. Heiden stayed in perfect form. "He's not a beauty skater, he's a strength skater," says Leah Poulos Mueller, an American speed skater who won silvers in the women's 500- and 1,000-meter races. Yet in the end Heiden's strength...
...last four 400-meter laps, Heiden was magnificent. Despite the growing pain, he skated each lap in exactly 35.2 sec. Finishing in 14:28.13, he was so tired that he could not even lift his head on his victory lap, let alone acknowledge the cheers...
With one of the great performances in Olympic history behind him, Heiden plans a sort of post-Olympic idyl of "goofing off"-racing bicycles in Florida, then camping and traveling in the western U.S., passing up his killer drills for the first time in years. "It's been so long since I've had a lot of free time, no training, no meets. Now I can do what I want to do." Eventually, he expects to go into sports medicine, possibly as an orthopedic surgeon like his father. He will spend next year studying at a sports medicine...
...nobody recognized him. I came out and was mobbed. Popularity drops pretty quick after you stop being on top. Things will cool off for me, and that's the way I want it." How would he like to be remembered? "The way I am. Just me, Eric Heiden...