1980 USA hockey team members 'Run Back the Miracle' in Lake Placid reunion

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The last time of adjacent month's Winter Olympics successful Milan Cortina volition people 46 years since arguably the top sporting upset of each time.

On Feb. 22, 1980, amateur hockey players from the United States shocked the satellite erstwhile they defeated the Soviet Union, 4-3, successful what has been known arsenic the "Miracle connected Ice."

Nearly 46 years later, skipper Mike Eruzione, goalie Jim Craig, starring goalscorer Mark Johnson, and play-by-play announcer Al Michaels were backmost astatine what is present called Herb Brooks Arena to "Run Back the Miracle."

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Mark Johnson, Jim Craig, and Mike Eruzione

(L-R) Mark Johnson, Jim Craig and Mike Eruzione sojourn their locker country from the Miracle connected Ice. (Michelob Ultra)

Powered by Michelob Ultra, the lawsuit reimagined pivotal moments from the legendary U.S. Olympic men’s crystal hockey squad triumph utilizing high-definition holograms, full-surface crystal projection and historical footage, allowing fans to relive the magic of 1 of the astir celebrated moments successful sports history.

"What we're capable to bash present is we're capable to relive the infinitesimal that we ne'er had a accidental to do. When the Olympics ended, you know, I deliberation successful 5 days, I was playing successful the National Hockey League. So was Mark Johnson," Craig said successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital hours earlier Thursday's event. "We just, each of a sudden, we were connected a team, and we were conscionable gone. And so, this is going to beryllium great. We're going to relive years of experience. It's going to bring backmost this representation to antithetic generations."

For Michaels, whose celebrated telephone has carried connected for generations, it was conscionable his 3rd clip backmost successful Lake Placid since those Olympic Games.

Miracle reunion

Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, and Mark Johnson instrumentality portion successful the "Run Back the Miracle" solemnisation successful Lake Placid, New York connected Jan. 15, 2026. (Michelob Ultra)

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"I mean, I tin consciousness it. I tin conscionable consciousness it successful my bones, my fibre to locomotion backmost into this building, adjacent though erstwhile evidently it's been remodeled and refurbished, but I tin inactive retrieve that nighttime and 1980," Michaels said.

The "Miracle connected Ice", wherever today's celebrated "U-S-A" chant was born, was overmuch much than a hockey game, arsenic planetary tensions were sky-high amid the Cold War. For Craig, that made it that overmuch much important to correspond the Stars and Stripes.

"Some of america were fortunate capable to play successful the World Championships successful 1979 successful tallness of the Cold War, and the games were successful Moscow. So we truly saw however the USSR backmost past utilized athletics arsenic propaganda. To me, it's not astir politics, but you can't assistance but get immoderate of those successful there. It's truly astir pridefulness of being and representing your country, right? And recognize that marque is much important than you," Craig added.

Michaels has been connected the mic for astir apt thousands of games since then. But his last words portion sitting adjacent to the precocious Ken Dryden are saved lone for erstwhile necessary.

Mike Eruzione

Miek Eruzione walks onto the crystal astatine Herb Brooks Arena. (Michael Ultra)

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"If I bash [say ‘miracle’], past radical think, ‘Hey, determination helium is, you know, patting himself connected the back.’ No. I'm precise cautious erstwhile I usage that word," Michaels joked.

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