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Hungry Heiden sets world record

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, January 14, 2002

February 23, 1980 Celebrating with the U.S. hockey team last night after its stunning victory over the Soviet Union, speed skater Eric Heiden oversleeps before his 10,000-meter race. "I was supposed to get up at 6:30," he says. "At 20 to 8 they were pounding on my door, wanting to know where I was. So I ran by the cafeteria, grabbed three slices of bread and hurried to the track." And on his near-empty stomach, Heiden becomes the first person to win five individual gold medals in one Olympics ...

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