The Miracle on Ice: How College Kids Toppled a Giant

Lake Placid, 1980. An Olympic setting as picturesque as it was historic. A group of unknown American college kids laced up their skates and stepped onto the ice—not just to play hockey, but to face the most dominant force the sport had ever seen: the Soviet Union. This wasn’t supposed to be a contest. The odds were laughable. The result? Legendary. This is the Miracle on Ice—arguably the greatest…