Speedskater Ohno crossword

Apolo Ohno is a towering name in speedskating after he ruled the oval for more than ten years. He was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1982 and even as a boy his gift for the sport plus his refusal to skip training were plain. The world first took notice at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, where he left with two medals - one of them gold in the 1500 metres. From that point on the medals kept coming. By the close of his Olympic days he owned eight in total, three of them gold. He skated with an attacking, high energy style, possessed deep stamina and handled technical elements with precision, all of which turned him into a crowd favourite but also a lasting emblem of the sport. Away from the rink he added philanthropy and business projects to his life - his reputation grew beyond medals as well as into the wider world of public service and enterprise. After he stopped racing, Ohno stayed close to sport - he offers television commentary or analysis and he works on fresh tools for training and performance showing that his hunger to extend the limits of human speed on ice has not dimmed. Though trophies also titles fill whole cabinets, he speaks of his coaches, team-mates and family as the true source of every victory. His path is built on steady effort, loyalty to the task next to a refusal to settle for less than the best and for that he continues to fire the ambitions of young skaters plus of anyone who follows sport.