The competition for the 1980 Olympic Hockey tournament was extremely talented. The Soviet Union was obviously the best team in the world at the time. They had won almost every international competiton they entered, and they had won every Olympic Gold Medal in the event since 1964. The Soviets also anhilated the NHL all stars in a competition the year before the games. “They know they are going to win, and so do their opponents” (Brooks) said Herb Brooks as the team watched film of the Soviet team. Opposed to the United States, where the players only trained together for six months before the games, the Soviet players played with each other all year round, and the current Soviet players had been playing with each other for at least ten years! Besides the Soviets, the eastern bloc teams from Czechoslovakia and Romania, as well as Sweeden, dominated international hockey at the time.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
The Competition
The competition for the 1980 Olympic Hockey tournament was extremely talented. The Soviet Union was obviously the best team in the world at the time. They had won almost every international competiton they entered, and they had won every Olympic Gold Medal in the event since 1964. The Soviets also anhilated the NHL all stars in a competition the year before the games. “They know they are going to win, and so do their opponents” (Brooks) said Herb Brooks as the team watched film of the Soviet team. Opposed to the United States, where the players only trained together for six months before the games, the Soviet players played with each other all year round, and the current Soviet players had been playing with each other for at least ten years! Besides the Soviets, the eastern bloc teams from Czechoslovakia and Romania, as well as Sweeden, dominated international hockey at the time.
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