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'Miracle on Ice' players discuss political climate heading into Winter Olympics

The 1980 U.S. hockey team draws parallels between their Cold War victory and today’s polarized political climate, with a new Netflix documentary marking the anniversary.

Throughout the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the U.S. men’s hockey team received telegrams from fans from across the country — telegrams they would then paste to the wall on the way onto the rink. As Team USA prepared to play the Soviet Union in the semifinals, a game in which the Americans were considered big underdogs, the players found inspiration in the many notes they received ahead of the Games. “They were so emotional,” r…

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