The Unknown Story of the the Greatest Sports Moment of the 20th Century—The 1980 Miracle On Ice

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It’s known as the greatest sports moment of the 20th Century. But no matter how familiar you are with the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s Lake Placid “Miracle on Ice,” you will soon see that this event seems even more unlikely now than it felt decades ago. We are about to do what we always strive to do with our storytelling here at Our American Stories: add new details to our heart's familiar pictures.