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General => Sports => Topic started by: kuro808 on February 22, 2010, 09:08:25 PM

Title: Miracle on Ice 30 years later
Post by: kuro808 on February 22, 2010, 09:08:25 PM

30 years ago today the U.S. victory over Russia (the most powerful team in the world at the time) although there few facts many people did not know

1. It was a semifinal game
2. The win was still not a factor into winning the gold (as they had a round-robin medal round)
3. They actually won over Finland for the gold in 1980

To look into it more SI wrote an article about it

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/joe_posnanski/02/22/miracle.on.ice/# (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/joe_posnanski/02/22/miracle.on.ice/#)

My feel into it was an inspiration for underdogs to take on the big dogs

Title: Re: Miracle on Ice 30 years later
Post by: Saburo on February 22, 2010, 10:38:32 PM

Is there a copy of this game available online?

Joe Posnanski had some interesting tidbits in his blog (http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2010/02/21/10-things-about-the-miracle-on-ice/) yesterday.

Title: Re: Miracle on Ice 30 years later
Post by: jaysonnj on February 23, 2010, 03:05:58 AM

Here's the final minute and a half with Al Michael's legendary call "Do you believe in miracles? YES!"

5 minutes of the miracle on ice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRALJyv86eY#)

NBC had a look back on the game right before Sunday's USA-Canada match. Great way to get everybody hyped up.