Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There are Olympic athletes, and then there are Olympic families. NPR's Melissa Block caught up with a famous former Olympian as she watched her daughter compete in South Korea. UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Singing) We will, we will rock you. MELISSA BLOCK, BYLINE: She's Beth Heiden, now Beth Heiden Reid. She won a bronze medal in speedskating at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. Her brother, Eric Heiden, won five gold medals at those games. BETH HEIDEN REID: This used to be, like, our song when we were speedskating. Yeah, our team. BLOCK: I meet up with her to watch her daughter, Joanne Reid, compete in her first Olympics in biathlon. And before the race begins, Beth thinks back to her first Olympics. She was 16, got confused and couldn't remember where her start line was. B. REID: I was like, oh, dear (laughter). I hope my daughter doesn't get nervous like I did 'cause what she's doing is very complicated. BLOCK: Biathlon combines two
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