USA's Jordan Stolz wins silver in 1,500-meter speedskating at Olympics

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American speedskater Jordan Stolz came conscionable abbreviated of his 3rd Olympic golden connected Thursday, losing retired to China's Ning Zhongyan successful the men's 1,500-meter contention and alternatively taking silver.

Had Stolz taken archetypal place, the 21-year-old would person go lone the 2nd U.S. jock successful past to cod astatine slightest 3 golden medals successful immoderate athletics during a azygous Winter Games, decades aft American skater Eric Heidan won 5 golden medals astatine the 1980 Winter Games successful Lake Placid, New York.

Stolz won golden successful the men's 1,000-meter and 500-meter speedskating events this twelvemonth and acceptable Olympic records successful some races. His triumph successful the erstwhile contention marked the archetypal medal for an American successful that lawsuit since 2010. He became the archetypal American since Heidan to medal doubly successful speedskating erstwhile helium won the second contention implicit the weekend.

Jordan Stolz of Team USA competes successful the men's 1,500-meter finals astatine the Winter Olympics successful Milan, Italy, Feb. 19, 2026.

After securing his archetypal golden successful the 500-meter, Stolz told CBS News that helium expected his adjacent events to beryllium immoderate of his champion of the year.

"That's what I'm looking for," Stolz said.

These are Stolz's 2nd Winter Games, aft helium made his debut successful Beijing and won 14th spot successful the 1,000-meter and 13th spot successful the 500-meter. Outside of the Olympics, helium is the satellite record-holder for the 1,000-meter velocity skate and the reigning two-time World Cup champion successful the distance.

Stolz is acceptable to vie successful his 4th and last lawsuit of the Milan Cortino Games, the wide start, this Saturday.

The Associated Press and Kerry Breen contributed to this report.

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