"It's been a great run, Eruzione said. And it's going to continue."
"What's amazing to me is we still carry this aura, Rob McClanahan said. It blows me away what continues to exist."
"We talk about whose golf game sucks, who's a sandbagger, who's fat, who's s bald, who's divorced: stupid, immature stuff, Eruzione said."
"They are long since retired, now more focused on their golf games than their legacies."
Members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team remain iconic nearly half a century after their Lake Placid gold medal. The surviving players are now in their 60s and 70s, retired from professional hockey and more focused on golf and daily life than past fame. The team received Congressional Gold Medals and continues to be spoken of with reverence because the victory transcended sports amid Cold War tensions. Current American Olympic contenders prompt renewed remembrances, even as younger players often know the Miracle on Ice more from film than direct experience.
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