 Lake Placid Winter Olympics
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LAKE PLACID is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in
New York and is named after this adjacent lake. While
the village is a year-round resort, it is likely most
known as the site of the 1980 Winter Olympics, and particularly
the USA-USSR hockey game, the "Miracle on Ice,". Lake Placid also hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics. Lake
Placid was the first location in North America to host
two Winter Olympic games. Along with St. Moritz, Switzerland
and Innsbruck, Austria, it is one of the three places
to have twice hosted the Winter Olympic Games.
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Lake Placid was the headquarters for the International Olympic
Committee which brought the 1932 and the 1980 Winter
Olympics. The village was the
first location in North America to host two Winter
Olympic games. |
LAKE PLACID WINTER OLYMPICS, 1932
The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III
Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1932 in Lake
Placid. The games opened on February 4, 1932. The 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games were going to be in Big
Pines, CA due to Alf Engen's world record, on then, the
world's largest ski jump, but due to poor snow conditions
the games moved to Lake Placid. Athletes from 17 nations
competed in these Winter Olympic Games, down from 25 nations
at the previous Games in 1928. Argentina, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia
did not send athletes. The USA went home with a total accumilation of 6 gold
medals, 4 silver medals and 2 bronze medals with a total
of 12 medals.
LAKE PLACID WINTER OLYMPICS, 1980
The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the
XIII Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1980 in Lake Placid. An upstart United States ice hockey team,
made up primarily of collegiate players, won the gold
medal, defeating the heavily favored Soviet team and then
Finland in the medal round. Their defeat of the Soviet
team in the medal round became known as the "Miracle
on Ice" in the US press. A film about the event,
called Miracle, was released in 2004.
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