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Stolz stuns¹ sports world with historic performances at speedskating championships

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American speedskater Jordan Stolz is setting records as he looks ahead to the 2026 Winter Olympics. He recently became the first man to win three individual gold medals at the world championships.

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Speedskating is a sport largely forgotten in this country when it's not an Olympic year. The next Winter Games are still three years away. But if American Jordan Stolz keeps doing what he did this past weekend, he could pull speedskating out of the shadows. The 18-year-old stunned³ the sports world with a historic performance at a world championship event in the Netherlands. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE⁴: Jordan Stolz hardly comes off as an impertinent teenager. He seems very calm and understated, true to his small-town Wisconsin roots. But it was incredibly brash of him to step onto the ice at Thialf Oval in the Netherlands - think the Yankee Stadium of speedskating - and dominate the way he did. It started Friday night in the men's 500 meter race at the World Single Distance Championships.

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GOLDMAN: Stolz won, the youngest-ever 500 meter champ in the event's nearly 30-year history. It also made him the first to win junior and senior world titles in the same season since the famous U.S. speedskating brother and sister Eric and Beth Heiden both did it in the late 1970s. And there was more at Thialf. Stolz won the 1,000 and 1,500 meter races, too - the first man, a very young man, to win three individual world gold medals at the single distance event. Orange-clad Dutch fans watched in amazement⁵. One competitor called Stolz otherworldly. 2006 Olympic speedskating gold medalist Joey Cheek says three things make Stolz so good, starting with a technical proficiency⁶ Cheek calls astounding⁷.

JOEY CHEEK: The things that he does well typically take people an entire career of microadjustments to get there.

GOLDMAN: Things such as how he pushes hard against the ice with no wasted motion, no misses on his push. Second, Cheek says Stolz has incredible top speed and finish.

CHEEK: He won the 500 at the world championships, and he had the fastest last lap in the 1,500. It's unheard of to have both of those.

GOLDMAN: Third - and Cheek says this is more observation than something measurable - Stolz seems unshaken by his sudden success. He grew up skating on frozen lakes and ponds in Wisconsin. His mom says the first time he went out, he fell over and over and complained the ice was too slippery. Now when he goes on the ice, the expectation is that Jordan Stolz will stand taller than everyone on the elevated top spot of the victory platform.

Tom Goldman, NPR News.

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1 stuns   

v.击晕( stun的第三人称单数 )；使大吃一惊；给（某人）以深刻印象；使深深感动

参考例句：

• But sometimes, a moment stuns us as it happens. 但总有那么一个瞬间让我们惊喜。 来自互联网
• Shield Stun: Stuns the top of the aggro chart, 3s stun. 盾牌昏迷：最大眩晕，3秒钟晕眩。 来自互联网

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 stunned   

adj. 震惊的，惊讶的 动词stun的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The fall stunned me for a moment. 那一下摔得我昏迷了片刻。
• The leaders of the Kopper Company were then stunned speechless. 科伯公司的领导们当时被惊得目瞪口呆。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 amazement   

n.惊奇，惊讶

参考例句：

• All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
• He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。

6 proficiency   

n.精通，熟练，精练

参考例句：

• He plied his trade and gained proficiency in it.他勤习手艺，技术渐渐达到了十分娴熟的地步。
• How do you think of your proficiency in written and spoken English?你认为你的书面英语和口语熟练程度如何？

7 astounding   

adj.使人震惊的vt.使震惊，使大吃一惊astound的现在分词)

参考例句：

• There was an astounding 20% increase in sales. 销售量惊人地增加了20%。
• The Chairman's remarks were so astounding that the audience listened to him with bated breath. 主席说的话令人吃惊，所以听众都屏息听他说。 来自《简明英汉词典》