klondike days started thursday tight. i usualy try to make it a couple of times per year. last year on opening night i went, along with a couple of friends, went to see trooper at the telus stage. i went home happy. i like the fireworks too. wont be a problem with those, since we got all that rain a couple of weeke ago. its all good. i may go again this year. well see.
Ice hockey at the 1980 winter Olympics
This tournament went from February 12-24, 1980. 12 teams played. The Olympic Fieldhouse and Olympic Arena hosted the games. Canada hockey team returns and finishes 6th. Tournament best remembered for the "miracle on ice" as the United States beat the Soviet Union before beating Finland to win gold. They had also beat Czechoslovakia and tied Sweden. Their roster fielded exclusively amateur players. The United States, as mentioned, won gold, Soviet Union the silver and Sweden the bronze. Next is the 1984 tournament in Sarajevo Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦).
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