#Lake Placid Olympics

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Remember how I said I was looking at some of the cheesy 80s America’s Cup novels in CupInfo’s bibliography? I read an excerpt from The Challenge and the Glory that included the passage above and assumed “Eric Heiden” was the name for that book’s John-Bertrand-stand-in-Australian skipper, just like the American defender was “Alan Seton” rather than Dennis Conner. I thought it had a nice ring to it, so it stuck in my mind. But as I learned today at the Lake Placid Olympic Museum, Eric Heiden is a real person, an Olympic speed skater who was active in the 1970s and 80s. Together, Heiden and his sister Beth accounted for half of all of the medals won by Americans at the Lake Placid Olympics in 1980!

(The Winter Olympic Games aren’t usually relevant to this blog— unless they add iceboating sometime in the future, I guess…)

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"Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

On February 22, 1980, the United States hockey team defeated the defending gold medalist Soviet Union to advance to the gold medal game during the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

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The hot weather and the excitement about the upcoming Olympics has Flat Franklin reminiscing about the 1932 III Olympic Winter Games held in Lake Placid.

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girls will watch one (1) movie about the 1980s American Olympic team absolutely shredding ice with the Soviets and make it their whole personality. it's me I'm girls

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The sheer cartoonishness of “American lady in a cowboy hat, Soviet lady in a ushanka!” made me giggle a little bit in the Olympic Museum.

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“Do you believe in miracles?” (22 February 1980)

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XIII Winter Olympic Games. Lake Placid, USA, 1980.

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Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeated the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3 on February 22, 1980.

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"Miracle on Ice", Lake Placid Olympics, February 22, 1980

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first of all OMFG WELLE WON AHHHHHH second of all AM I THE ONLY ONE SEEING THE PARALELLS TO FIVE YEARS AND A DAY AGO? HE WON QUALI; HE WAS FIFTH AFTER THE FIRST ROUND AND HE WON FROM THERE WITH AN AWESOME JUMP i’ve been waiting for this day so long, you can’t imagine how much I want to cry out of happiness

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Eddie Eagan was an American boxer and bobsledder who is notable as being the only person to win a gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in different disciplines. Eagan won his summer gold in boxing (light heavyweight) and his winter gold in four-man bobsled. These medals were for boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and in bobsledding at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.

Eagan set a world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by scheduled airlines on December 13, 1948. He traveled 20,559 miles stopping at 18 different stations and beat the previous record by 20 hours and 15 minutes.

Born Edward Patrick Francis Eagan on April 26, 1897 in Denver, Colorado and died on June 14, 1967 in New York City at the age of 70.

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Squier Unveils Limited Edition Classic Vibe Guitars for 2024

Four new Squier Limited Edition Classic Vibe Guitars models announced ahead of NAMM 2024. With retro style and classic looks

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Miracle on Ice displays at the Lake Placid Olympic Center and the arena as it looks today.

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