Meet 17-year-old Jordan Stolz, the third-youngest American man to compete in the WinterOlympics in long track speed skating. He makes his much-anticipated WinterOlympic debut Saturday.
It’s nice, this glimpse of normalcy in the warm kitchen of this family of four. Because everything else about Olympic long track speedskater Jordan Stolz’s life story is mind bending. It started with the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, when Apolo Ohno earned a silver and two bronzes, surpassing Bonnie Blair-Cruikshank for most medals won by a U.S. Winter Olympian.
Look at the seriousness of Jordan’s face at the start line, bent over, arm thrown back, eyes focused, and it is clear their lives would all change right here. Millions of kids watch the Olympics and dream; little Jordan plotted and planned. While training, Jordan was a monster on his Wilier bike, flying down hills at 58 miles per hour. He was turning into a real speed freak in everything. On the ice he is credited with going 37 mph on TV, but he can get to 40 with his torque on a corner. The 2020 season started off strong with races in Switzerland and the Youth Olympics where he was fifth in the world. That 500 meters on Lake St. Moritz was brutally cold, just like home.
"I guess you could say I kind of got addicted to trying to get stronger," said Stolz."I just did pretty much everything I could to get as strong as I could." This was unexpected. Male speedskaters often hit their peak in their mid-20s. On the first 500 that Jordan won, the second-place racer was Austin Kleba, 26, and the next guy was 31.
Jane was already planning to be there as a volunteer and Dirk got a last-minute assistance job with the ice and Zamboni for two of the races before they were asked to stay home. They got to see their son make history. and was held out of trials."I hope that everyone's healthy and the best skaters are on the ice. And that means making it to China, testing negative to get on the airplane to even go there."
There will be time to adapt before his races Feb. 12 and 18. But still, it’s hard not to focus on how young he is. He looks like he’s cut his hands with his skate blades far more often than he’s nicked his face while shaving. Jordan is the third-youngest American man to compete in the Olympics in long track speed skating behind Heiden and Emery Lehman, who were also 17 in their first Games.
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