Thirty years later, I’m 55 and still skating at the Olympic Trials. My goals are different now: I’m not skating to go to the Olympics. I want to break the Masters world record for every distance. I want to stay connected to this amazing sport and its athletes.

MILWAUKEE, WI — A fall might have shown more about Jordan Stolz’s potential than anything else he did at the Olympic trials. Well, maybe not the fall so much as what he did after. Stolz was pre-qualified in all four of his individual events — the 500 ...