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...Hockey's out," Ponusuk said. "[Speed skater]Dan Jansen's done. She's all that's left...
This enduring need to remember people at the pinnacle of their accomplishments drove the public interest in Dan Jansen's and Diann Roff-Steinrotter's quest for gold. These athletes, in the autumn of their youth, were afforded one last chance in the Winter Olympics...
...speed skater Dan Jansen, who finished an unexpectedly poor 26th in the 1,000-m event, answered a barrage of journalists' questions -- no matter how boorish -- with patience and dignity...
America's Dan Jansen had the most emotion-laden second chance at Albertville. On the morning of the 500-m race at Calgary, Jansen's older sister had died of leukemia. Favored to win, he had planned to dedicate the gold medal to her, but fell on the first turn. Later, in the 1,000 m, he fell again. Despair is too mild a word to describe the look on his face as he lifted himself from the ice. Four years later, a still introverted Jansen and his protective family assert that Calgary no longer haunts him. "There are other...
...selection as ambassador changed almost overnight the climate of Japan and U.S. relations," said Marius Jansen, a professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University...