Dan Jansen
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"Daniel ("Dan") Erwin Jansen" born June 17, 1965, in West Allis, Wisconsin, is a retired American Speed skating/speed skater. A multiple world champion in sprint and perennial favorite at the Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal in his final race (1000 meters) in the 1994 Winter Olympics, at the end of his career.

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I don't think there's any such thing as setting your goals too high. The higher you set your goals, the more you are going to work, ... If you don't reach, then it's OK, just as long as you set it and then give a hundred percent of yourself.

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I remember standing on that podium, ... and for the first time probably before or since, wishing our national anthem had more verses.

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Question I've certainly thought about.

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Maybe that slip in the 500 actually helped, ... The 500, I was on the last turn and trying, maybe, to get too much out of it. ... When I slipped in the 1,000, in a split second it went through my mind: 'Don't panic. Don't try to get it all back in one stride. Just ride it out and try to accelerate out of the turn.'

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Either he thrives on it or he doesn't realize it. He didn't even skate on ice four years ago, and now he is an Olympic favorite.

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NHL players are amazing hockey players, and you watch and go, 'It doesn't look good. They don't skate very well.

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[Hawks general manager] Dale Tallon and I have known each other for several years. We played a little golf together. We had talked about doing something like this for a while. He called me and asked me if I was interested in working with skaters. I said, 'Sure.' So here we are.

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Nobody had done anything to me.

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I think faster and, maybe more importantly, more efficiently. Not only as the game goes on, but as the season goes on.

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