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Greatest Sports Moment or Accomplishment?

Posted By: Rory
Date: Thursday, 14 April 2011, at 7:11 p.m.

In Response To: Greatest Sports Moment (Way OT) (Stanley E. Richards)

What are you really asking here?

If you are looking for the greatest individual accomplishment Jesse Owens 4 Gold Metals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin should rank second to what the same Jesse Owens did at the 1935 Big Ten Track and Field Championships about a year earlier. He broke three world records and tied another in just 45 minutes.

If you are looking for the Greatest Sports Moment of all time...as an American I would have to say it is the Miracle on Ice...the U.S. beat the Soviet Union in the Semi-Final macth of the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid. The Soviet Union had won the last four Olympic Gold Metals in Hockey and were professionals while the U.S. team was a bunch of college kids that had been playing together for only five months. Thirteen days before the Miracle on Ice the Soviet Union beat the U.S. 10-3 in an exibition at the MAdision Square Garden.

What Jesse Owens' accomplishment in Berlin (1936) and the Miracle on Ice (1980) have in common is the political climate. 1936 Nazi Germany and 1980 the height of the Cold War. Both of these events helped unite our country at critical times in history.

I would love to hear some responses to both questions from some non Americans.

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