The 2020 Olympics may have been postponed, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still retroactively enjoy them. Here are seven great Winter Olympic moments.
Miracle on Ice — Team USA beats perennial Soviet superpower, Lake Placid 1980
The so-called “Miracle on Ice” was one of the most impressive upsets in Olympic history. The American underdogs, a scrappy team mostly made up of college students, remarkably made it to the medal round of play undefeated. As the seventh seed, however, Team USA was up against the first-seeded, four-time defending champions, the Soviets. Expecting a semifinals tilt in favor of the dominant USSR, the U.S. team dramatically took a lead in the third period, ultimately defeating the Soviets in a spectacular upset and then going on to win gold. The 2004 movie “Miracle” was made to memorialize the historic victory.
