It was a cold and snowy spring day last week as I stood on an embankment alongside an oval track. In the background was the century-old Lake Placid High School, while in the distance, snow-covered ...

Eric Heiden never asked for his moment of fame ... The next year, Heiden shocked the speed-skating world by winning the overall title at the world championships. Even Heiden wondered if his ...

Ryan Shimabukuro is in Hawaii for a week-long vacation before getting ready for his sixth Olympic Games as a Team USA coach.

1980 Lake Placid Eric Heiden became an Olympic legend in Lake Placid when he swept the men’s speed skating events and became the first person in Olympic history to win five individual gold medals in ...

Only one American has won three golds at one Winter Olympics — fellow Wisconsin speed skater Eric Heiden. He swept the five speed skating events at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games in arguably the ...

American speedskater Jordan Stolz won four races at a single ISU Speed Skating World Cup for ... allround speedskating world champion since Eric Heiden and the first American to win the title ...