Download or read book A Long Shot to Glory written by Michael Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes life is like a movie. There are moments and events in life - not often - that are as exciting and as dramatic as a movie. What happened in Lake Placid, New York in February 1980 at the Thirteenth Winter Olympics was such a time. For those who experienced it in person or watched the games on television, they remember where they were when the US hockey team beat the Soviet Union and then beat the team from Finland two days later to win the gold medal. The sports victory of an underdog group of college kids was thrilling enough but it was a win against the Soviet Union. This Cold War adversary was also the nation hosting the summer games later that year which the United States was threatening to boycott. The excitement and drama in Lake Placid gave the games a huge lift of enthusiasm and popularity when some had even come to believe that staging the Olympics was no longer affordable for many communities and that perhaps the 1980 Winter Games should be cancelled entirely. Indeed, as the games began, a US News and World Report magazine questioned whether the Lake Placid games were the "last Olympics." What happened on the hockey ice was improbable enough, but the Lake Placid Winter Games were a long shot, if not a miracle too. Winning the games had been an unlikely decades-long quest for this small town to overcome the barriers of exploding finances, environmental concerns and world politics. Few remember that the 1980 games were never supposed to take place in Lake Placid. They came to the small village because of unexpected events which unfolded and made the two weeks in the remote Adirondacks before a worldwide audience of nearly a billion viewers one of the most dramatic times in the modern era of sports, media and politics. It would not be too much of a stretch to say that the Lake Placid Games, which brought the "Miracle on Ice," saved the Winter Olympics in 1980 and greatly enhanced them for the future.
Download or read book 1980 Winter Olympic Games written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake Placid N Y as the Site of the 1980 Winter Olympics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake Placid N Y as the Site of the 1980 Winter Olympics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce written by United States. Dept. of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first annual report submitted December 16, 1913, "being the eleventh annual report of so much of the former Department of commerce and labor as is now included within the Department of commerce," contains an outline of the work of the department. Another issue is dated 1914.
Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1981 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 2150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Olympic games costs to plan and stage the games in the United States written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Environmental Impact Statement for 1980 Olympic Winter Games written by United States. Economic Development Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics written by David Wallechinsky and published by Amazon Difital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us. This book was released on 2014 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in anticipation of the 2014 Sochi Games, The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics has been expanded to include the rules and scoring for all the upcoming events. The book also looks at the history of each Olympic event from inception to the present day, including discontinued events and the four skating events first featured, before the creation of the Winter Olympics, in the 1908 London Summer Olympics. From speed skating to snowboarding, bobsled to ice hockey, the book gives the medals tables, timings, distances, and scores. But much more than a statistical compendium, the book also offers an abundance of Winter Olympic history, anecdotes, and lore, as authors David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky bring alive the most dramatic moments from the Games and celebrating the many extraordinary individuals who have competed."--Publisher's description.
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Download or read book The Boys of Winter written by Wayne Coffey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which Sports Illustrated called the greatest moment in sports history—with a new afterword by Ken Morrow for the fortieth anniversary of the Miracle on Ice “An unvarnished and captivating read.”—Parade Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach. Their “Miracle on Ice” has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable. Wayne Coffey casts a fresh eye on this seminal sports event, giving readers an ice-level view of the amateurs who took on a Russian hockey juggernaut at the height of the Cold War. He details the unusual chemistry of the Americans—formulated by their fiercely determined coach, Herb Brooks—and seamlessly weaves portraits of the boys with the fluid action of the game itself. Coffey also traces the paths of the players and coaches since their stunning victory, examining how the Olympic events affected their lives. Told with warmth and an uncanny eye for detail, The Boys of Winter is an intimate, perceptive portrayal of one Friday night in Lake Placid and the enduring power of the extraordinary.
Download or read book Survey of Activities of the Committee on Foreign Affairs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of Activities Committee on International Relations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
