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Miracle
Miracle
“Mirage on Ice” (Eng. Miracle on Ice)-the hockey game between the national teams of the USSR and the USA, held on February 22, 1980 at the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placis, was called. Speaking in the rank of existing world champions and the Olympic Games, the Soviet team unexpectedly lost to the national team composed of student team players. The match played a decisive role in the distribution of medals in the hockey tournament: having won the final match of the final tournament from Finland, the US team won gold medals. Most perceived this as an absurd accident, but for many US citizens, a “miracle on ice” turned out to be one of the most striking events of the 2nd half of the 20th century. According to the sister of the player of the US national team, she has not seen so many flags on the streets since the 60s. “But then we burned them,” she added ..