Jordan Stolz's bid for another Olympic gold medal ends as Dutch speedskaters win mass start
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Jordan Stolz's bid to become the first man in 32 years with three Olympic golds in long track speedskating was fading Saturday. Way ahead in the mass start, the sport's final event at the Milan Cortina Games, was 40-year-old Jorrit Bergsma, who joined another skater in pulling away from the pack with several laps to go. In:
Jordan Stolz's bid to become the first man in 32 years with three Olympic golds in long track speedskating was fading Saturday. Way ahead in the mass start, the sport's final event at the Milan Cortina Games, was 40-year-old Jorrit Bergsma, who joined another skater in pulling away from the pack with several laps to go.
Stolz kept figuring someone else would try to reel in the leaders. No one did. Stolz was shocked. He wound up in fourth place behind the mullet-wearing Bergsma, the oldest speedskater to claim a gold at any Olympics.
"They all expected me to chase, but I wasn't going to do that," said Stolz, a 21-year-old from Wisconsin. "If I had chased with five laps to go, I would have just blown myself up. I thought the other guys would be a bit more hungry to do it, but I guess they didn't want to."
He won his first two events in Milan, the 500 meters and 1,000 meters. Then came a silver in the 1,500. After that result on Thursday, Stolz said: "I didn't have it today. Not sure why."
He didn't have enough in the mass start, either.
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