{"id":66371,"date":"2026-02-14T12:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/two-races-two-golds-jordan-stolz-smashes-another-olympic-record-in-500m\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:57:46","slug":"two-races-two-golds-jordan-stolz-smashes-another-olympic-record-in-500m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/two-races-two-golds-jordan-stolz-smashes-another-olympic-record-in-500m\/","title":{"rendered":"Two races, two golds: Jordan Stolz smashes another Olympic record in 500m"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US speed skating star\u2019s four-gold pursuit continues<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>500m considered toughest of Stolz\u2019s individual events<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Entire podium finishes below previous Olympic record<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The men\u2019s 500m is speed skating distilled to its most unforgiving form: one and a quarter laps of the oval, no pacing, no recovery window, no margin for technical compromise. On Saturday afternoon in Milan\u2019s western suburbs, Jordan Stolz mastered the sport\u2019s fastest and most unpredictable race and pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/11\/jordan-stolz-olympics-1000m-speed-skating-gold-reskate\">his Olympic campaign<\/a> toward historic territory.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old American won the 500m in an Olympic-record 33.77 seconds, securing his second gold medal of the Milano Cortina Olympics and adding pace behind what is rapidly becoming one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/11\/jordan-stolz-speed-skating-winter-olympics-schedule\">defining individual campaigns<\/a> of these Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/14\/jordan-stolz-olympic-record-speed-skating-500m-gold\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US speed skating star\u2019s four-gold pursuit continues 500m considered toughest of Stolz\u2019s individual events Entire podium finishes below previous Olympic record The men\u2019s 500m is speed skating distilled to its most unforgiving form: one and a quarter laps of the oval, no pacing, no recovery window, no margin for technical compromise. On Saturday afternoon in &#8230; <a title=\"Two races, two golds: Jordan Stolz smashes another Olympic record in 500m\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/two-races-two-golds-jordan-stolz-smashes-another-olympic-record-in-500m\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Two races, two golds: Jordan Stolz smashes another Olympic record in 500m\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}