In the days after she came up four-hundredths of a second short of her Olympic moment, the American skeleton athlete found herself still in Sochi, Russia, with nothing but the math in her head and the turns on the track to haunt her. There she met someone who was, at one point, in her shoes.
Uhlaender bumped into U.S. speedskating legend Dan Jansen. And one of the first questions she posed to the one-time world-record holder was one Jansen himself had to answer for years. Despite all of his accolades on the ice, Jansen didn’t win a medal until his final Olympic appearance — the 1994 Games in Lillehammer.