Dan Brooks, son of the legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks, recalls what President Jimmy Carter said to his dad after they beat Finland in the gold medal game at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Two days before the U.S. Olympic hockey team unexpectedly defeated the Soviet team in a game now referred to as the Miracle on Ice.
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The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22. The United States national team, made up of amateur and collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet Union national team, which had won the gold medal in six of the seven previous Olympic games.
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