President Donald Trump will present congressional medals to athletes from the famed 1980 Olympic men’s ice hockey team at the White House on Friday, just months before the 2026 Winter Olympics kick off in Italy.
The 1980 team, a ragtag collection of amateurs and college players coached by Herb Brooks, ascended to sporting immortality during the hockey tournament in Lake Placid, New York, when they knocked off the mighty Soviet Union in the semifinals en route to a gold medal.
Might as well since they won’t be celebrating anything this Olympics after Canada lays a beating on them.
Haha yes!
We'll celebrate 🥂
That's interesting. I was 10 at the time and watched the whole thing on TV rooting for the home team. Trump was busy working real estate deals and nowhere to be seen at Lake Placid...