They called Dan Jansen "the heartbreak kid" of the Winter Olympics: Although Time had proclaimed him "the greatest sprinter on long blades in the past decade," Jansen was cursed by a streak of personal and career catastrophes that kept him from victory in two successive Olympics - climaxing with the devastating death from leukemia of his sister Jane only hours before Jansen was to skate at Calgary in 1988. Then, in 1994, on a frigid February afternoon in Lillehammer, Norway, Jansen found the inner strength to conquer his demons - taking the gold and setting an all-time record for 1,000-meter speed skating in a performance the world will never forget.