A Long Shot to Glory
Autor Michael Burgessen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iul 2012
The excitement and drama in Lake Placid gave the games a huge lift of enthusiasm and popularity when some had even come to believe that staging the Olympics was no longer affordable for many communities and that perhaps the 1980 Winter Games should be cancelled entirely. Indeed, as the games began, a US News and World Report magazine questioned whether the Lake Placid games were the "last Olympics."
What happened on the hockey ice was improbable enough, but the Lake Placid Winter Games were a long shot, if not a miracle too. Winning the games had been an unlikely decades-long quest for this small town to overcome the barriers of exploding finances, environmental concerns and world politics. Few remember that the 1980 games were never supposed to take place in Lake Placid. They came to the small village because of unexpected events which unfolded and made the two weeks in the remote Adirondacks before a worldwide audience of nearly a billion viewers one of the most dramatic times in the modern era of sports, media and politics. It would not be too much of a stretch to say that the Lake Placid Games, which brought the "Miracle on Ice," saved the Winter Olympics in 1980 and greatly enhanced them for the future.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781457512872
ISBN-10: 1457512874
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC
ISBN-10: 1457512874
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC