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
You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed.
When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.
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.
Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.
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.
I didn't get into skating to be famous.
It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
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.