Eric Heiden's boy-next-door quality may have shown through in his interviews but when the then 21-year-old kid from Madison, Wisconsin put on his skates he was a force to be reckoned with. Eric's captured the attention of the United States (and the world) when he won all five gold medals (the 500, 1000, 1500, 5000 and 10000-m races) in the speed-skating competitions during the
1980 Winter Olympics.
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