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He's the Buffalo Bills.
A winner. A champion. A hell of a human being. Everybody who knows him admires him. Adversaries respect him. Year in, year out, he defeats them. He's as good as anybody out there. He belongs out there on his sport's biggest day. But does he win? At Winter Olympics XIV-no. Winter Olympics XV-no. Winter Olympics XVI-no. And now, Winter Olympics XVII-no.
People get sentimental about him. Just once, they want him to win. Behind his back, some call him a choker. He's the best in the business. The U.S. coach calls him the "Carl Lewis of skating." But he hasn't won a gold, hasn't won a silver, hasn't won a bronze. The track's either too soft or too hard. He's either too distracted or too focused. He slips, he falls, he fails. He's the Gerald Ford of skating.
Man, oh, man. Maybe Dan Jansen is a choker.
"It's not a choke. It's not,...