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EricHeiden left a lot of impressions on people attending the 1980 Winter Olympics — and not just for his speed-skating prowess.
Ed Engelbride, a former student and administrator at Plattsburgh State, was working in the Olympic Center as a press steward and an usher in the VIP section when he had an encounter with Heiden at the dramatic U.S. vs. Soviet Union hockey game.
I whispered in her ear, ‘It’s EricHeiden,’ and she relented.
Sister, Beth, was a 1980 U.S. Olympic bronze medalist in speed skating giving the Heiden family exactly half of the total medals won by the USA
Heiden now lives in Sacramento with his wife, Karen Drews, and is an orthopedic surgeon and sports team physician.
After announcing to the press he would retire at the end of the season he said, "Maybe if things had stayed the way they were and I could still be obscure in an obscure sport, I might want to keep skating.
EricHeiden turned in a performance for the ages at Lake Placid.
Many believed it to be a fluke, but he successfully defended it in 1978 and 1979, and thus was the favorite in every distance going into the Lake Placid Games.
Heiden won his first four races, and the night before his final race, which would be a historic attempt to be the first Olympic athlete to win five individual gold medals in a single Olympics, he attended the game between the U.S. men's hockey team and the Soviet Union.
He won five Olympic gold medals, a record for male speed skaters that was matched by EricHeiden in 1980.
One of the most decorated medalists in Winter Olympic history, in 1980EricHeiden of the United States became the first athlete to win gold medals in all five men's speed skating events, at the games in Lake Placid, N.Y. Heroes of the Games
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EricHeiden ruled the speed skating world back then.
Yeah, the hockey team got all the glory, but they were a group that gelled at the right time and then pulled off a great upset in the "Do you believe in miracles" game.
But, Heiden skated in 5 events - from 500 meters to 10,000 meters.
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