I believe that what you are asking about is the Ice Hockey final in the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, NY in 1980, when USA defeated the overwhelming favorite Soviet Union in what has become known as "the Miracle on Ice"
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Czechoslovakia won silver and Sweden won bronze.
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∙ 13y agoThe United States won the gold medal defeating the USSR and Finland in the final round.
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∙ 12y agoThe USSR and Finland.
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The 1980 United States Hockey Team accomplished one of the greatest upsets in the history of sports. A group of college players who hadn't played together before the Olympics took on a professional team from the Soviet Union and defeated them to win the gold medal.
Obviously.
Desire to finally beat the Soviets motivated the US 1980 hockey team. Support and intense training and discipline from their coach (Herb Brooks) helped them win.
Jimmy Carter was defeated by Ronald Reagan in the election of November 1980
Depends on what sport you are talking about. For hockey, my personal favorite, it was the US hockey team. They nicknamed it the Miracle on Ice.
The Miracle Team.
1960 and 1980.
1960 and 1980.
If you are talking about in the Olympics, 1980 in Lake Placid
sense of national pride.
From 1928 Amsterdam Olympics to 1956 Melbourne Olympics India won six consecutive gold medals at hockey. The two other gold medals for India came in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Mike Eruzione was the captain and Bill Baker was the alternate captain.