Just being on the verge of winning a medal is a big step in the right direction. It's the American way to microwave everything we do. We want it faster, quicker, with no messy clean-up. In speed skating, we're now told, we must nurture our athletes, wait for the positive results. The U.S. men still have one more crack at stealing a medal in Tuesday night's 10,000-meter long track.
Speed skating is an exciting event.
Eric Heiden, Dan Jansen and Bonnie Blair provided us with a foundation. But in order to compete with the Dutch, it will take some more building by both the present and future classes of Olympians. With that, it was good-bye, FitzRandolph. Bos came next. He passed Shimizu.