Eric Heiden
Eric Heiden
Eric Arthur Heidenis an American former long track speed skater, road cyclist and track cyclist. He who won all of main the men's speed skating races that he could have won during his active years. Heiden won unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, United States. He was the most successful athlete at those Olympic Games, single-handedly winning more gold medals than...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSpeed Skater
Date of Birth14 June 1958
CityMadison, WI
CountryUnited States of America
He is going his own way. He is not a team player.
If you're a public relations person, any press is good press. It certainly brings more to the story than just skating laps and who's winning a gold medal.
Secondly, you got to have the right frame of mind. There are a lot of people with the right tools but just don't have the drive.
Provided he skates up to his potential and doesn't get sick or anything like that, I think he's got a fairly good chance. My biggest concern is that he will get distracted by it all. Physically, no one can beat him at 1,500, 5,000 or 10,000. He's just got to be really focused on what's going on and not get all wrapped up in the potential distractions.
This team has the potential to win more medals and have more success than the one in Salt Lake. We should see at least one man on the podium with every race, and that's being conservative.
When I was skating, there was ice only for a really short period of time. So we would have to do a lot of other cross training type things.
How much you move affects your strength, your power, your balance, how you look, how you think, how well you withstand the high winds and rain showers of life and how long you will stand. Everyone needs concentrated doses of several kinds of movement to remain functional.
It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
I didn't get into skating to be famous.
On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.
Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.
Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.
When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.
You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.