There are a lot of miracles in human’s history. However in modern Olympic games the most miracle on must be the miracle on ice.The “Miracle on Ice” is the nickname given to a February 22 medal-round men’s ice hockey game during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in which the USA team beat the USSR team by the score 4 to 3 in semifinal.
Maybe you will wander why this is a miracle. That is because the USSR is a very strong ice hockey team.The USSR, emerging from several major defeats in the mid-1970s, was back on top of the hockey world going into the 1980 Games at Lake Placid.However, on the other side, the USA team is consist of amateurs who are college students. Before this competetion the USA team met the USSR team and are crashed by USSR by the score 3 to 10.
In order to earn some face back in this Winter Olympic Games, the USA team are trained so hard.
For these college students whose skill are not so good, they have to train 8 hours on the ice everyday which almost killed them. However, they survived and what’s more the beat the USSR.
At that time, the USA and USSR are having the cold war, so this ice hockey competetion was really a “cold war” between USA and USSR.
At last, USA beat USSR in front millions of American people. How exciting it should be! Maybe we will never know what it means to the American people unless we were in that unforgetable moment when the miracle happened!