Bill aims to award Congressional Gold Medals to ‘Miracle on Ice’ team

[AL MICHAELS]

FIVE SECONDS LEFT. DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES. YES! UNBELIEVABLE!

[JACK AYLMER]

YOU’VE PROBABLY SEEN THE HIGHLIGHTS– MAYBE YOU WERE AROUND WHEN IT HAPPENED.

NOW, A BILL INTRODUCED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AIMS TO AWARD CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDALS TO THE 1980 ‘MIRACLE ON ICE’ OLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAM.

THE TEAM DEFEATED HEAVILY FAVORED SOVIET TEAM IN LAKE PLACID, NEW YORK, AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE COLD WAR, EVENTUALLY WINNING THE GOLD MEDAL AGAINST FINLAND DAYS LATER.

THE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION WOULD CREATE AND PLACE THE MEDALS AT THREE LOCATIONS.

ONE WOULD BE PUT ON DISPLAY AT THE U-S HOCKEY HALL OF FAME IN EVELETH, MINNESOTA.

ANOTHER WOULD BE SHOWCASED AT THE LAKE PLACID OLYMPIC CENTER AND THE THIRD WOULD BE AT THE U- S OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC MUSEUM IN COLORADO SPRINGS.

THE PUSH TO GET THE TEAM RECOGNIZED COMES AS MEMBERS OF THE ICONIC SQUAD HAVE DIED IN RECENT YEARS.

THE N-H-L COMMISSIONER THREW HIS WEIGHT BEHIND THE EFFORT CALLING THE TEAM’S RUN “PERHAPS THE MOST MEMORABLE AND IMPACTFUL ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF ATHLETICS.”

THE U-S-A HOCKEY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALSO URGED FANS TO GET BEHIND THE PROPOSAL.

REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE PETE STAUBER OF MINNESOTA, WHO INTRODUCED THE BILL, WANTS THE LEGISLATION TO PASS IN TIME FOR THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE “MIRACLE ON ICE” ON FEBRUARY 22ND.

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