"I didn't think anybody was going to beat that time."
"It was just a feeling like, 'You finally did it,'"
"Well, it's hard to say, 'Oh, I could win four gold medals,' when you haven't won one yet. Now that I've won one, I kind of know what to expect and can kind of feel like how the crowd is, with the energy, and the ice,"
Jordan Stolz captured the men's 1,000 meters at the Milan Cortina Games in an Olympic-record 1:06.28 after a powerful closing stretch. He waited more than 10 minutes to celebrate while officials confirmed another competitor's re-skate, confident his time would hold. Stolz began skating at age five on a frozen Wisconsin pond after watching the 2010 Winter Olympics and had long dreamed of Olympic gold. He trailed with 400 meters to go before pulling ahead to win. His father celebrated the achievement, and Stolz is entered in three more events, with his world record of 1:05.37 unchallenged in this race.
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