Word: jansenism
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...lock for Jansen this time. You could take it to the bank. Except by now everyone knew that speed skaters can and do go down. That has been Dan's singular contribution to the common body of knowledge about his discipline. On Monday, 300 m into the race of his life, it began to happen again. Out went Jansen's hand to steady himself, the friction of it scraping along the ice probably enough to cause the thirty-five hundreths of a second's difference between gold and Jansen's eighth-place finish. "You lose so much momentum...
...Jansen went back to his quarters that night, sat down and wrote the four words that he had been penning to himself for the past two years. The mantra, given to him by sports psychologist Jim Loehr, said, "I love the 1,000." Problem is, Jansen didn't. "I was afraid of it," he admitted...
Golds for Jansen and Blair...
After slipping out of contention in the 500-m race, speed skater Dan Jansen finally won a gold medal and set a world record in the 1,000-m finals. Bonnie Blair skated to gold in the women's 500-m, her third straight Olympic win in the event...
SPORT: Finally, Redemption for Dan Jansen...