'I would love to make history': Jordan Stolz goes for Olympic gold this week

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- As Jordan Stolz moves toward Milan, he admits one misstep.

What has this last year been like for you as you kind of ramp up for obviously one of the bigger moments of your life?

"Yeah, it's been pretty good," Jordan Stolz says. "I mean the summer went well. I had a small little crash on the bike that cost me maybe a week or two weeks. Whatever. But it didn't really affect me too much."

But at this point? Things look great. In December setting three track records in Norway.

"Those records just came by themselves," Stolz says. "I didn't really have to work too hard for them. So when I you know, get a two week taper into Milan? I think it's going to be even better."

Since then? The Kewaskum speedskater is a gold medal favorite. In four races.

"I think right now I'm on a perfect path to Milan," Stolz says in matter of fact fashion. "I had a little opportunity, 800 meters to go so I took it. I thought maybe I'd get caught but nobody could catch me."

How would a gold medal change your life?

"Of course it would change your life financially right?" Stolz says. "But just being you know accomplished, in a sport I've been doing since I was 5. You know it's always a dream that I've had to first of all go to the Olympics but maybe someday medal. Which now I have a great opportunity so."

If he could take the 500, the thousand, the 1500 and the mass start? He would enter the same conversation as the great Eric Heiden from Madison.

How now that it's closer do you look at making history and doing what you've always dreamed of?

"I would love to make history and of course I don't wanna get too far ahead of myself thinking about, you know, that's its gonna happen right?" Stolz says. "Anything can still, you know come up in the next month. So I just wanna you know, keep realistic and stay focused on training and then keep my body in shape and just you know, see what I can do."

You have to do what you have to do so to speak before you can make history. Is that, am I accurate in that?

"Yeah exactly. I mean I just don't wanna think, you know, too far ahead," Stolz says. "I mean the only way to match Heiden would be is if I did the team pursuit along with all of my other distances which that's still up in the air. I probably haven't decided you know if I'll do it or not. I mean it's like a 10 percent chance I will. But if I do? Then of course I have a chance and maybe, you know, it becomes more realistic. But right now like, he won 5 gold medals. I have 4 distances. So maybe if I add one I can do it. But it's not, you know, I'm not gonna change anything that's gonna affect other races just to, you know, go for five."

His training at the Pettit National Ice Center? At incredible speeds.

What is it like to go 40 miles an hour on skates?

"Oh you can't replicate it with anything else" Stolz says. "I mean, you can drive a car as fast as you can but there's no other feeling. You're just, there's nothing in your mind at the time. You're just hitting the turn as fast as you can and trying not to fall so."

Yet he knows how the margin for error is like the edge on his skates.

You won one race by what, one one-hundreth or whatever?

"Yeah by you know that much," Stolz says. "Literally this much so and if I have a perfect race? And I don't win gold? I mean there's nothing I can do about that so."