The Soviet Union had won four consecutive Olympic gold ... an exhibition game at Madison Square Garden, a week before the 1980 Olympics began in Lake Placid, New York. There was simply no way ...

Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice,” when the U.S. Hockey Team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in Lake Placid, N.Y., during the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, en route to ...

The iconic goal against the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics sealed the U.S.’s improbable and unforgettable upset. Mike Eruzione’s iconic goal in the famed Miracle on Ice game at the ...

Matthew Impelli is a Newsweek staff writer based in New York. His focus is reporting social issues and crime. In January 2023, Matthew traveled to Moscow, Idaho where he reported on the quadruple ...

Carter, who died Sunday in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100, called to boycott the 1980 Olympics because of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, and the pressure he exerted on the U.S ...

1980 Moscow Games Boycott The largest ... 1984 Los Angeles Games Boycott When the U.S. hosted the following Olympics in 1984, the Soviet Union, along with 14 of its allies, including Eastern ...

Helayne Seidman Former President Jimmy Carter turned Bob Giordano’s Olympic dreams into nightmares. Carter’s decision to boycott the Moscow Summer Games in response to the Soviet Union’s ...

Meanwhile, Soviet Union and Poland faced-off in the bronze medal game in the India won their eighth hockey gold medal with a thrilling victory over Spain in 1980 Olympics The finale saw India and ...