Editing Eric Heiden (section)

==Personal life==
Heiden met fellow medical student Karen Drews while the two were studying at Stanford, and they married in 1995. Karen is a hand surgeon. They have a daughter, Zoe, born in 2001.<ref name="sfgate">{{Cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PROFILE-Eric-Heiden-Olympic-gold-medalist-3308527.php |title=Eric Heiden, Olympic gold medalist / From skates to scalpel / Five-time gold medalist says career in medicine is his greatest achievement |work=San Francisco Chronicle |first=Tom |last=Graham |date=September 22, 2002 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529094554/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PROFILE-Eric-Heiden-Olympic-gold-medalist-3308527.php |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Heiden was offered many sponsorship opportunities after his record-setting performance in the 1980 Winter Olympics, but turned down most of them, saying he had enough money, and preferred the anonymity.<ref name="sfgate" />

A number of American former gold medal winners, including Heiden, were asked to participate in the ceremonies for the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] held in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], but Heiden declined after he was passed over for the honor of lighting the [[Olympic torch]].  The [[Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics|1980 U.S. Hockey Team]], which won the gold medal at the 1980 games, was given the honor instead. Heiden said in 2009: "I was probably just too stubborn. I figured if they don't appreciate what I did as a skater, if they don't appreciate now what I am doing as a human being, I'd just as soon hang out with my buddies and watch it. I did not mean to slight the Olympic hockey team in any way."<ref>{{cite news |last=Longman |first=Jere |title=Former Speedskating Champion Heiden Is Staying Close to the Ice |work=The New York Times |date=September 30, 2009 |access-date=June 14, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/sports/01heiden.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626163714/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/sports/01heiden.html |archive-date=June 26, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>