When speed skater Jordan Stolz made his Winter Olympics debut in 2022 at Beijing, he competed in two events and failed to medal in both.<\/p>\n
Stolz upped his game for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, where he’s earned gold in those same events, and now seeks a third on Thursday in a race he’s never done on the Olympic level.<\/p>\n
So far in Milan Cortina, the 21-year-old started with the men’s 1000m event, where he set an Olympic record on his way to gold, with a time of 1:06.28 \u2014 50 seconds faster than the second-place winner, Jenning de Boo of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
A new day, a new record. Stolz’ win in the 500m speed skating event Saturday saw him set another Olympic record, with a time of 33.77, which was good for 11 seconds faster than de Boo.<\/p>\n
The current Olympic record for the 1500m is 1:43.21, a record the Wisconsin native may look to claim on his way to a third gold medal. <\/p>\n
The 21-year-old looks to become the first male athlete to win three gold medals at a single Olympics, last done by Eric Heiden in 1980, when he won five gold medals at Lake Placid.<\/p>\n
Stolz returns to the ice on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. for the men’s 1500m, an event he did not compete in at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
The action can be seen on NBC New York and streamed on Peacock<\/a> or NBCOlympics.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When speed skater Jordan Stolz made his Winter Olympics debut in 2022 at Beijing, he competed in two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29209,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-138310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}