Erin Jackson makes U.S. History with Speed Skating 500m Gold
Erin Jackson makes U.S. history with speed skating 500m gold | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
Just over a month after a slip at Olympic Trials nearly cost her a trip to Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, U.S. speed skater Erin Jackson is an Olympic gold medalist.
Jackson, competing her second Olympics just six years after she first stepped on the ice, won gold in the women’s 500-meter event.
“This medal means so much,” she said. “It has been a tough couple of years and a tough beginning for this year. For this to come around like this, I am so happy.”
Skating in the second-to-last pair, Jackson posted the fastest time of the day – 37.04 seconds – and then had to wait to see if it would hold up.
“I am a very calm person anyway, so I was just waiting and watching,” she said. “There was nothing I could do.”
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