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Members of the gold-medal-winning 1980 U.S. Olympic team recently received Congressional Gold Medals, and their legend only grows with time. They are in their 60s and 70s now, long removed from beating the Soviet Union on home ice in Lake Placid, New York, 46 years ago and yet their names are still spoken with reverence because the accomplishment at one of the peaks of the Cold War transcended hockey.

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00:00I love coming back to Lake Placid. I don't do it a lot. I wish I did it more.
00:05There's just something special about Lake Placid. It's magical. The environment is
00:09awesome. It's spiritual for me and I think it's like that for a lot of people.
00:13And now you've got this statue of Herb Brooks and he's gonna be standing up
00:18there watching millions of young hockey players walking in front of him,
00:21experiencing the miracle, reliving the miracle. Monday morning after the closing
00:26ceremonies we go to Saranac Lake to fly down a seat to meet President Carter.
00:30You know there's 3,000 people waiting in the airport. Fly to DC. People have
00:34pulled off the highway as the buses are coming into the district. Thousands. We
00:39get into the district. It's mayhem, madhouse, media, people. So we're always
00:44going like we just been to Lake Placid you know this little kind of upstate New
00:48York perfect place and now we came back to the world and we saw what was changing.
00:52That was the beginning of it and you know over the years I mean it's had
00:56its ups and downs I guess but uh since the movie Miracle really froze us in
01:01time and that's just really been something that young hockey players and
01:06people athletes all over the country and the world even have just grasped on to
01:11you know. Nice job you're good to go buddy. I'm as excited to be with them as
01:17they are with me because I was one of them one time. It's the new deal huh?
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