Add to ORKGNo one can deny the popularity of sports in our society. These games or competitions often transcend the mere playing arena and become integrated into the mindset of popular culture. Often unique political, social and/or cultural events not only correspond but also become interwoven with the sports community. One such interwoven moment is the Miracle of Ice hockey game played between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1980 Winter Olympics. Utilizing various literary and popular texts with archival video footage, this multi-faceted oral presentation will showcase the historical background, results and implications of this single hockey game. By combining past and current reflections of this miraculous event, the performanc...
These words, by the historian Colin Howell, encapsulate the drama and subsequent outpouring of vict...
This research paper examines how Soviet ice hockey was received by the Canadian media from 1954 to ...
For nearly two weeks now the Sixteenth Winter Olympics has filled television screens across the worl...
Bachelor thesis discusses how in the era of the Cold War there was a confrontation on the sports fie...
The 1980 Olympic hockey game between the Soviet Union and the United States, is considered to be one...
Two misconceptions fed the seemingly instantaneous mythologizing of the Miracle on Ice. First, that ...
The notion that politics and sport should not be mixed together have been a common notion throughout...
Sports Illustrated considers the Miracle on Ice the sports event of the 20th century. For an America...
My research examined American attitudes towards the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc at the 1960, S...
This paper forms part of a panel presentation and discussion that re-evaluates the Summit Series fro...
Graduate student conference held December 4-5, 2009 at the University of British Columbia. Panel 1: ...
It may be my imagination but it seems as though every time I leave the country for a few weeks the w...
Although the 1980 Miracle on Ice has been thoroughly examined from both the American and Soviet view...
In my Florida neighborhood it was a quiet Saturday morning. In fact it was probably much the same ac...
It is known that Canada’s sport and pastime is Hockey, however, we see in pop culture that this is u...
These words, by the historian Colin Howell, encapsulate the drama and subsequent outpouring of vict...
This research paper examines how Soviet ice hockey was received by the Canadian media from 1954 to ...
For nearly two weeks now the Sixteenth Winter Olympics has filled television screens across the worl...
Bachelor thesis discusses how in the era of the Cold War there was a confrontation on the sports fie...
The 1980 Olympic hockey game between the Soviet Union and the United States, is considered to be one...
Two misconceptions fed the seemingly instantaneous mythologizing of the Miracle on Ice. First, that ...
The notion that politics and sport should not be mixed together have been a common notion throughout...
Sports Illustrated considers the Miracle on Ice the sports event of the 20th century. For an America...
My research examined American attitudes towards the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc at the 1960, S...
This paper forms part of a panel presentation and discussion that re-evaluates the Summit Series fro...
Graduate student conference held December 4-5, 2009 at the University of British Columbia. Panel 1: ...
It may be my imagination but it seems as though every time I leave the country for a few weeks the w...
Although the 1980 Miracle on Ice has been thoroughly examined from both the American and Soviet view...
In my Florida neighborhood it was a quiet Saturday morning. In fact it was probably much the same ac...
It is known that Canada’s sport and pastime is Hockey, however, we see in pop culture that this is u...
These words, by the historian Colin Howell, encapsulate the drama and subsequent outpouring of vict...
This research paper examines how Soviet ice hockey was received by the Canadian media from 1954 to ...
For nearly two weeks now the Sixteenth Winter Olympics has filled television screens across the worl...