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Amid Olympics, new documentary recalls America’s Miracle on Ice — and what ‘The Boys of ‘80’ won for red, white and blue

Everyone who witnessed it remembers where they were. 

The victory of the gold-medal-winning US men’s hockey team over the Soviets at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY,  was the greatest American sporting event of the 20th century, featuring the greatest call of all time: broadcaster Al Michaels indelibly counting down the final seconds before exclaiming, “Do you believe in miracles? . . . Yes!”

On the occasion of this year’s Winter Olympics, Netflix has released a new documentary on the team, “Miracle: The Boys of ’80.”

It is a story that has been off-told, but never grows old.

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The backdrop of US-Soviet geopolitical competition and our national humiliation in the late 1970s gave the victory extra emotional punch.

Malaise, at least for a time, gave way to joyful flag-waving and exultant chants of “USA!”

The centerpiece of “Miracle” is the interviews with the players, now old men, individually and sitting together on their old bench in........

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