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Milan, Italy (CNN) — Much has been made of the weight of expectation at this year’s Winter Games, especially when it comes to American athletes.

But where the likes of Ilia Mailinin and Mikaela Shiffrin have seemingly struggled to live with the pressure, Team USA’s speed skating sensation Jordan Stolz has thrived.

In just his second Olympics, the 21-year-old has already won two gold medals in the two events he’s competed in. First came 1000m glory and an Olympic record to boot, followed by a 500m victory and another Olympic record.

It’s a worrying precedent for his rivals, given he has the chance to win another two individual gold medals in the Milan Cortina, both in the 1500m event and the mass start.

Given his record in recent years, it’s unsurprising that Stolz was expected to shine on the global stage. And while many would, and have, caved under the pressure, Stolz has only grown ever larger.

Before heading to Milan, the American spoke to CNN Sports and addressed his label of being the man to beat.

“I kind of like it,” he said. “It’s better than being the one who’s hunting. I’d rather be hunted because that means you’re doing something right and winning.”

Stolz has now proven that those were not empty words, embracing the favorite tag and turning it into a strength. Not bad for a man who initially learned to skate on a frozen pond behind his childhood home.

Embracing logic

Stolz seems to read from the same logic-based hymn sheet that the likes of legendary climber Alex Honnold sing from. The skater’s confidence stems from repetition, knowing that if he puts enough hours into his craft, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.

It’s perhaps how he’s able to step into the Olympic limelight and take it all in his stride – a skill others have so far failed to master.

“It is not like (the Olympic Winter Games) is different from any other race,” he said after winning his first gold medal of the Winter Games.

“It’s just the fact that you waited the last four years to finally get here again, and you get one shot to try and battle, which I was able to do. It’s a feeling like no other.”

Glittering career

Despite being so young, Stolz has been at the top of speed skating for several years. In 2023, the then 18-year-old became the youngest ever speed skating world champion after earning gold in the 500m.

In the process, he also became the first speed skater in more than 40 years to win both junior and senior world titles in the same season, a feat only previously accomplished by Beth Heiden in 1979 and Eric Heiden in 1977 and 1978.

His career has just kept going on an upward trajectory. Before becoming a two-time Olympic champion in Milan, he was already a two-time world champion in the 500m, 1000m and 1500m events and holds the world record in the 1000m.

It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that he’s already been compared to

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - A delayed blast of rain and wind for areas south of Goleta and Santa Barbara ended up packing a strong Monday morning punch.

The anticipated surge before dawn went north and soaked areas from Lompoc to Atascadero until more of the storm's flow came up into areas around Santa Barbara with some fast and heavy downpours.

Trees snapped around Cathedrals Oaks and Fairview in Goleta blocking lanes.

Another tree was down on San Leandro Lane requiring a response from the Montecito Fire Protection District to clean the lane.

The Forestry Crew in the City of Santa Barbara had a large task at East Beach near the volleyball courts with a large tree that fell and covered the lanes. It was carved up and pushed out of the way until it was hauled out in multiple dumpster loads.

After two vessels were tossed up on the sand in the last round of rough seas, so far, no boats have hit the Santa Barbara Shores.

Marborg Industries removed the other two late last week as part of an emergency effort to clear them out before this storm where they would have been likely to hit the rocks and break apart in all directions.

Commuters were light in the morning hours, due to the President's Day holiday. Once the heavier rains started, there were crashes northbound at Santa Monica Rd. in Carpinteria and south at Sheffield.

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El fallecido Robert Duvall es recordado por sus papeles en “El padrino” y “Apocalipsis Now”, que representan muy bien una carrera extensa y galardonada.

Al comienzo de su carrera, Duvall apareció en varias obras de teatro antes de ser elegido para la versión cinematográfica de “Matar a un ruiseñor”, en el pequeño pero crucial papel de Arthur “Boo” Radley en 1962.

Le siguieron diversos papeles cinematográficos, entre ellos el de villano junto a John Wayne en su única actuación ganadora del Oscar, “True Grit”; el papel del mayor Frank Burns en la película de Robert Altman “M*A*S*H”; y el papel principal en “THX 1138”, el debut como director de ciencia ficción distópico de George Lucas en 1971, donde Duvall (y todos los demás) lucieron cabezas rapadas.

Duvall fue nominado a a siete premios Oscar y ganó uno. También estuvo nominado siete veces en los Globo de Oro, ganó cuatro.

Duvall interpretó memorablemente al consigliere, o asesor clave, de la familia Corleone en “El padrino” de Francis Ford Coppola, obteniendo su primera de siete nominaciones al Oscar por la película de 1972, antes de retomar el papel dos años después en “El Padrino II”.

El papel como Tom Hagen en esa película catapultó a Duvall a otro nivel. El actor trabajó de forma constante a partir de entonces, interpretando a un ejecutivo de una cadena en la sátira “Network” y dando el salto a la televisión en la exitosa miniserie “Lonesome Dove”.

Duvall omitió notablemente su participación en la largamente retrasada “El Padrino III” en 1990 debido a una disputa salarial con Coppola. Le dijo a Bob Costas que Al Pacino cobraría cinco veces más de lo que le habían ofrecido, lo cual era “totalmente inaceptable”.

Posteriormente, en una entrevista con Larry King, Duvall calificó su decisión de no aparecer en la tercera película de “El padrino” como “una cuestión de principios”.

También fue nominado al Oscar por interpretar a un marine en conflicto con su familia en “The Great Santini” y como el teniente coronel Kilgore en la épica de la guerra de Vietnam “Apocalypse Now”, que lo reunió con Coppola y en la que pronunció la famosa frase: “Me encanta el olor a napalm por la mañana”.

Duvall ganó un Oscar por interpretar a un cantante de country en la película de 1983 “Tender Mercies”, en la que cantó él mismo.

También participó en otros westerns, como “Open Range”, junto a Kevin Costner, y su papel en otra miniserie, “Broken Trail”, que le valió un Emmy.

Fue nominado nuevamente al Oscar como actor por su trabajo en “The Apostle”.

Se mantuvo activo hasta bien entrada la década de 2010, recibiendo su última nominación al Oscar a los 84 años por “The Judge” en 2014, y apareciendo en películas como “Jack Reacher” y “Widows”.

Duvall también interpretó a varias figuras históricas durante su carrera, incluyendo a Robert E. Lee (“Gods and Generals”), Joseph Stalin (en la película de HBO “Stalin”) y al criminal de guerra nazi Adolf Eichmann (“The Man Who Captured Eichmann”).

Duvall también se convirtió en cineasta, escribiendo, dirigiendo y coprotagonizando la película de 1997 “The Apostle”, sobre un predicador con problemas, y posteriormente dirigiendo las películas “Assassination Tango” y “Wild Horses”.

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