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The Miracle on Ice in 1980 and Why a Hockey Game Meant So Much to the Country A timeline of Herb Brooks's 1980 team, the 10-3 loss to the Soviets, the 4-3 win at Lake Placid and the gold two days later, and why it meant so much. Eric Liddell would not run on Sunday, then won Olympic gold anyway The Scottish sprinter gave up his best event in 1924 over a Sunday heat, won the 400 meters instead and spent his life as a missionary in China. Jesse Owens in Berlin and the Honours His Own Country Was Slow to Give Jesse Owens beat the Nazi racial myth on its own track in 1936, then waited decades for his country to say thank you. What that wait teaches about merit.