Winter Olympics Series Episode III - The Miracle on Ice

As hard as it might be for British ice hockey fans to grasp, there actually is a more famous ice hockey shock than the Brits upsetting the dominant Canadians in 1936 (twice).

At Lake Placid in 1980, a team of amateur college players with an average age of just 21 took on the juggernaut that was the Soviet Union national team, ostensibly amateurs too but in reality full-time players with nominal jobs provided by the state allowing maximum training and preparation for the Olympic Games.

It should have been one sided, as the two teams pre-tournament exhibition match was when the Soviet's defeated the young American team 10-3. But sport, as sport does from time to time, had other ideas.

Do you believe in miracles?

Final minute of the match wi ...