Olympic gold medalist discusses balance between celebrating one victory while vying for others

Growing up successful Wisconsin, it was comparatively casual for Jordan Stolz to get into speedskating.

Waters are frozen aboriginal and often successful the frozen tundra, which has made the Midwest somewhat of a hockey hotbed.

But watching Apollo Anton Ohno arsenic a kid, the absorption was earthy for the 21-year-old.

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Gold medalist Jordan Stolz of the U.S. celebrates aft the men's 500-meter speedskating contention astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Milan, Italy, connected Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. (Ben Curtis/AP)

This past February, helium accomplished the imagination by taking location not one, but 2 Olympic golden medals.

Of course, winning 1 is simply a success, but with 3 different medal events, celebrating wasn't precisely the easiest.

"Yeah, it's beauteous tough," Stolz told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview. "I mean, I wanted to celebrate, but really I was truly focused connected the 500 (meters), due to the fact that it's lone 1 time disconnected and past the 500 final."

Stolz's archetypal golden came successful the 1,000-meter race, but the unit was connected to triumph a 2nd successful the 500.

"I benignant of felt similar I truly needed to triumph that 500. So I wasn't truly messing astir astatine all," helium said. "So I wouldn't accidental it was hard to not celebrate, but competing passim the full clip of the games, it got a small spot difficult, particularly with the 1,500, and the infinitesimal I start, there's a batch of clip successful between. There's besides things that tin get messed up."

Jordan Stolz celebrates with his golden medal connected the podium of the men’s 1,000-meter speedskating contention astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Milan, Italy, connected Feb. 11, 2026. (Luca Bruno/AP Photo)

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It was a beingness of grooming some connected and disconnected the crystal successful bid for Stolz to bring location the hardware, arsenic what's going into Stolz's assemblage mightiness beryllium much important than what helium does connected the rink. Recognizing that importance, helium besides makes definite his cat, Mitzi, a stray who showed up connected his structure looking for nutrient erstwhile Stolz was a preteen, is getting a akin nutritional attraction with Nulo food.

"I'm truthful cautious astir what I enactment into to my body. Now I'm conscionable eating, you know, benignant of unspeakable food, not truly paying attention, and it's like, man, I benignant of consciousness similar garbage," Stolz said. So it's like, I benignant of get a sensation of what it's like, you know, atrocious prime food. So Mitzi, I don't privation her to beryllium eating mediocre nutrition, due to the fact that she doesn't adjacent person a choice, right? It's up to maine to springiness her what's right. So that's wherefore I take to springiness him a Nulo."

While Stolz accomplished his goal, there's overmuch much enactment to beryllium done. And helium really whitethorn not request to hold until 2030 to bash it.

Jordan Stolz of the U.S. warms up for the men's 1,000 meters speedskating contention astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (Ben Curtis/AP)

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"I'm gonna support grooming until the adjacent Olympics," Stolz said. "Do immoderate World Championships, World Cups, we'll spot what I tin do.

"I mightiness try, you know, a small spot of way cycling this summer, possibly successful LA '28's connected the table, but we'll see."

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