They call it the �Olympic feeling�. It�s what surfaces every four years in the hearts and minds of thousands of athletes. It�s what keeps them working, what fuels their dreams. It�s what makes the Games the ultimate competition, different from all others. They say the Olympic feeling never dies.

Case in point - Artur Dmitriev. This thirty-year-old pairs skater came to Nagano in his third Olympics, with a new partner, Oksana Kasakova, overshadowed by his younger, much-hyped training mates Berezhnya and Sikharulidze.

Artur Dmitriev? Too old, too inconsistent, too busy drinking and smoking while others practiced. He was past his prime, not a gold medal contender this time.

But while the doubters scoffed, the Olympic feeling was burning again in Artur�s heart. Once an Olympian, always an Olympian. The passion would not die. He would not sit back, contented with the two Olympic medals he�d already earned with his former partner, Natalia Mishketuniok. He wanted more.

And at the end of a lacklustre pairs competition in Nagano, it was the Olympic feeling that delivered. Artur Dmitriev made history as the only pairs skater to ever capture Olympic gold with two different partners... and more importantly, he became living evidence of the power of an Olympian�s passion.