Eric Heiden, the speed skating icon from the 1980 Lake Placid games is lending his five gold medals to the U.S. Olympic and ...

Eric Heiden's five medals from the 1980 Olympics, Lake Placid games, were hand-delivered here to the Olympic museum by Heiden ...

While the U.S. doesn't always dominate at the Winter Olympics like at the Summer Olympics, there are plenty of U.S. athletes ...

This past May 17, Eric Heiden stood behind a lectern, shuffled some papers and addressed the U.S. speed skating community at an awards ceremony. "Well, were there any doubters last year that we ...

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Speedskater Eric Heiden, the Wisconsin native who captured Olympic history with five gold medals in the 1980 Winter Olympics, posted a picture of the skates he wore and posed an interesting question ...

Coming off an unprecedented performance at the world championships, 18-year-old Jordan Stolz is already facing the inevitable comparisons to the greatest speedskater of them all. Eric Heiden. Stolz ...

Coming off an unprecedented performance at the world championships, 18-year-old Jordan Stolz is already facing the inevitable comparisons to the greatest speedskater of them all. Eric Heiden. Stolz ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the 1980 Lake Placid Winter ...

Eric Heiden, the former speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals in 1980, was back at the Winter Games last week. But he wasn't in Sochi, Russia, to compete. He was there as the team physician ...

"If I looked at myself I would probably say that I am a very driven person to the point of almost being selfish. I wasn't around for birthdays or Christmas. Maybe I'm one of the ultimate hedonists, I ...