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  1.                                  At the 1980 Winter 
  2.                                 Olympics, in Lake Placid, 
  3.                                 New York, Eric Heiden of 
  4.                                 the United States 
  5.                                 competed in all five of the 
  6. menΓÇÖs long-track speed skating races. He
  7. won them all! He became the first person
  8. ever to win five individual gold medals at 
  9. one Olympics, winter or summer. (Swimmer
  10. Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in 1972, 
  11. but three were for relays.) No U.S. Winter
  12. Olympic team since 1932 had won five gold
  13. medals.
  14.  
  15. Eric grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. Like 
  16. many kids in that area of the country, he 
  17. played ice hockey as a boy. Later, he 
  18. began to concentrate on speed skating.
  19. Luckily, Eric lived near the only 400-
  20.  
  21.  
  22.