First hockey game I ever attended was at the Olympics. I was 8 at the time. USA vs. Austria. The Americans won 10-6. Other than that, my memories are rather thin.
Interesting to note that the IOC had considered scrapping the Winter Olympics several times. They barely survived past 1972, then continued to limp forward until Calgary. Samaranch called the Calgary games the best Olympics ever. The Olympic retrospective in Sunday's Sun pretty much said that Calgary saved the Winter Olympics entirely.
The improvement Canada has made at the Winter Games is probably Calgary's greatest legacy - Our 14 gold medals in Vancouver is an all-time Winter Olympic record. But I read a couple days ago the embarrassing performance by the Americans in 1988 also caused them to re-focus their winter program.
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